Roman+Empire+Test+Review

Topic 1
 * Augustus
 * Virgil
 * Hadrian
 * Good Emperors
 * Pax Romana
 * Galen
 * aqueducts


 * 1) How did government, law, and commerce develop during the Pax Romana?
 * 2) Identify the specific improvements made under Augustus and the emperors of the Pax Romana?
 * 3) What was their lasting impact on the Empire?
 * 4) How might Rome's underpriliveged have reacted to a system of unequal laws?

Topic 2


 * inflation
 * Simon Bar Kokhba
 * Jesus of Nazareth
 * disciples
 * martyrs
 * Saul of Tarsus
 * Gentiles
 * theology


 * 1) What were three of the problems that followed the Pax Romana?
 * 2) What effect did this have on the Roman Empire?
 * 3) What factors led to the successful spread of Christianity?
 * 4) What was the relationship like between Rome and the Jews?
 * 5) What was the result of their conflicts?
 * 6) Why were people in the empire looking to different religions for comfort during the A.D. 200s?

Topic 3
 * Diocletian
 * Attila
 * corruption
 * Justinian
 * Theodora
 * Byzantine Empire


 * 1) To where did Constantine move Rome’s capital?
 * 2) What effect did Roman farmers’ fear of raids have on the empire?
 * 3) Why did the Goths move into the Roman Empire?
 * 4) What were two of Justinian’s major accomplishments?
 * 5) Name two ways that the Byzantine Empire was different from the Western Roman Empire.

Topic 4

Successes and failures of Roman emperors
 * Augustus
 * Nero
 * Trajan
 * Hadrian
 * Diocletian
 * Constantine
 * Justinian

Essay Questions 1. What was the lasting impact Augustus's reforms had on the Roman Empire? 2. Why was the 200 hundred years to begin the Empire called the Pax Romana? 3. What were factors that led to the decline of the Roman Empire? 4. What factors led to splitting the Roman Empire into the Western and Eastern Empires? 5. What factors led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire?