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Roman Empire and Early Christianity

Dr. Reimer

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2.A center of Christianity in Ethiopia, one of the first places in the world outside the Roman Empire to convert to Christianity in the Early 300s.
8.Roman Emperor who issued the Edict of Milan, the first imperial ruling to allow the practice of Christianity, and who shifted the capital from Rome to the new city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey).
10.The legal head of the extended family in Rome who made all decisions and was the only person who could own property.
11.Jewish preacher believed by the Christians to be the Messiah, the figure who would bring salvation and through atonement, eternal life to those who believed in him
12.Roman government between 509 and 27 B. C. E. Ruled by two elected executives who consulted regularly with the senate (2 Words)
14.Roman lawyer and official famous for his letters describing life during the Principate, especially the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. (3 Words)
16.A brilliant military Strategist who led Carthage’s armies over the Alps onto Italy during the Second Punic War but lost to Rome in 202 B.C.E
17.A city in Modern day Tunisia originally founded by the Phoenicians. Rome’s main rival for control of the Mediterranean
18.A Christian Pilgrim from Spain who visited Jerusalem, Egypt, and parts of modern-day Turkey between 381 and 384. The dates of her birth and death are unknown.
19.leaders of a Germanic speaking force that attacked North Africa in 430 and sacked Rome for two weeks in 455.
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1.Rome’s most successful military commander in the first century B.C.E., who was named dictator by the Senate in 49 B.C.E. (2 Words)
2.Author of The Confessions, and a prominent early Christian Thinker who encouraged early Christians to confess their sins.
3.Roman governing body during the Roman Republic, composed of some three hundred patricians. Later became an advisory body. (2 Words)
4.Writing material made by stretching, scraping, and cleaning animal skin.
5.Three wars Rome and Carthage fought between 264 and 146 B.C.E., all won by Rome. (2 Words)
6.A Greek historian who was deported to Rome, where he wrote The Rise of the Roman Empire. Believed the task of the historian was to distinguish underlying causes of events.
7.A position given by the Roman Senate before the first Century B.C.E. to a temporary commander that granted him full authority for a limited amount of time, usually six months.
9.The System of government in Rome between 27 B.C.E. and 284 C.E, in which the Princeps, a term meaning” first citizen,” ruled the empire as a monarch in all but name. (2 Words)
13.The name meaning “revered,” That Octavian, received from the Senate when he became princeps, or first citizen. Of Rome in 27 B.C.E.
15.An influential early Christian leader who traveled widely in modern-day Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece to teach about early Christianity.

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