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2. How is Roman art different from Greek art?

3. More realistic Greek sculptors idealized the human form, using athletes as models of perfection. Romans created more realistic portraits

4. Constructed by the Romans to carry water from reservoirs in the country to the cities

5. Aqueducts These canal-like stone structures that tunneled through mountains and spanned valleys

6. Pictures formed of chips of coloured stone that made up the floors in homes of the wealthy

7. Mosaics

8. Name this building

9. The Colosseum

10. Roof formed by rounded arches

11. Dome

12. What was different about the coins in Palestine from the coins in the rest of the Empire?

13. The face of the Emperor was not imprinted on the coins Hebrew Law forbade Jews to worship images.

14. As a result of a Jewish uprising in Jerusalem against the foreign rule, Rome abolished the Jewish state in this year

15. 70 C.E. Rome abolished the Jewish state which had existed since ancient times.

16. The belief of many gods

17. Polytheism Monotheism – belief in one God

18. A person who dies or endures suffering for their beliefs

19. Martyr

20. The official policy of religious tolerance in the Roman Empire

21. Edict of Milan In 313 C.E. Emperor Constantine declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral with regard to religious worship and officially removed all obstacles to the practice of religions

22. Small farmers who gave their land to wealthy nobles in exchange for protection

23. Coloni

24. A time of extended peace in the Roman Empire

25. Pax Romana The Pax Romana ended after the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD

26. Emperors took this action to raise money for the treasury

27. Devalued the coin Gold coins were replaced with copper coins with only a thin layer of gold thus these coins were worth less

28. The Emperor that decided that Rome should no longer be the capital

29. Constantine Constantine announced that the capital was moving Rome to Byzantium in 324 CE. The name of the city was changed to Constantinople (“City of Constantine”) and it became the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 CE.

30. The Roman Emperor who was known as the “Reformer”

31. Diocletian

32. He wrote History of Rome and his goal was to glorify Rome and its achievements

33. Livy “I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds”

34. The author of the 37 volume Natural History

35. Pliny the Elder

36. Physician whose medical encyclopedia was used in Europe until the 1400s

37. Galen

38. This astronomer claimed that the earth was at the centre of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved around it

39. Ptolemy His theories were not disproved until the 1500s

40. Emperor during the “Golden Era” of the Roman Empire

41. Marcus Aurelius

42. A saviour chosen by God

43. Messiah Christians believe that Jesus is the messiah that the Jews are waiting for

44. Fierce Nomadic tribe from Central Asia who attacked German tribes of Eastern Europe

45. The Huns

46. King of Italy in 476 CE (after he captured Rome)

47. Odoacer

48. Created from a mixture of lime and earth

49. Concrete

50. A short sword used by gladiators

51. Gladius