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- 7. A form of government where power is divided among different branches.
- 8. He was murdered on the floor of the Senate on the Ides of March in 44 BC.
- 10. A leading political figure, author, lawyer, and statesman who won acclaim as the greatest orator of his day.
- 12. Sometime during the eighth century BC seven Latin villages formed this alliance.
- 16. These structures supplied water to Roman cities.
- 17. A famed historian who favored the old republic over life under the self-centered emperors.
- 18. This gathering of clergymen affirmed Christ's deity and the doctrine of the Trinity.
- 19. A Germanic tribe that established a kingdom in North Africa.
- 21. They protected the rights and interests of the common people.
- 24. He became the "Poet of the Augustan Age".
- 26. He sentenced Jesus to death because he feared punishment from emperor Tiberius.
- 27. He killed his brother Remus in a burst of jealous anger.
- 29. He dismissed Christian soldiers from the army and ordered the destruction of churches and copies of Scripture.
- 31. The commander of a victorious army.
- 33. He was often called the "Homer of Rome".
- 34. A philosophy that teaches that the highest good is the pursuit of the virtues of courage, dignity, duty, simplicity of life, and service to fellow men.
- 35. He crossed the Alps with cavalry, elephants, and some forty thousand soldiers to attack Rome.
- 36. A fierce nomadic tribe that came out of the Far East.
- 39. The chief assembly of the early Roman government.
- 40. The events of this person's life are recorded in the four Gospels.
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- 1. With this edict, emperor Constantine made Christianity legal.
- 2. He set fire to Rome and blamed it on the Christians.
- 3. The period of Roman Peace.
- 4. He promoted the geocentric theory of the universe, meaning that the sun, moon, and planets revolved around the earth.
- 5. The "common people" (farmers, traders, and craftsmen) who made up most of Roman society.
- 6. He was probably the greatest expounder of Epicureanism in the Roman world.
- 9. The tutor of the emperor Nero.
- 11. He had a divine revelation on his way to Damascus that converted him to Christianity.
- 13. Known as the "scourge of God".
- 14. The tablets hung in the Roman Forum that became the foundation of Roman civil law.
- 15. "first citizen"
- 20. A historian who lived during the Augustan Age and wrote a lengthy history of Rome.
- 22. The wealthy landholders and noble families that made up the aristocratic class in Roman society.
- 23. The Senate gave Octavian this title when he "restored" the republic.
- 25. In 287 BC, this body gained the power to pass laws binding upon all the people of Rome.
- 28. A barbarian tribe that crossed the Danube River and settled in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.
- 30. These two brothers were from one of the noble families of Rome. They tried bring reform to the republic, but were both killed.
- 32. He taught that true happiness comes only as man frees his mind from fear and his body from pain.
- 37. A heretic who challenged the deity of Christ.
- 38. The most important and powerful body of the Roman government.