Rome and Christianity : From Republic to Empire
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Rome and Christianity :From Republic to Empire
Key Terms:Cicero
Julius Caesar
Pompey
Marc Antony
Augustus
Pax Romana
Aqueduct
Romance Languages
Civil Law
Get Caught Up…• After civil war, Rome was a dangerous place. • Everyone was trying to decide who the best leaders would be
and who to support.• Julius Caesar, a powerful general in the Roman army, gained
many followers. • The senate thought he had too many followers, so they killed
him on the Ides of March, or March 15th.• Caesar’s friends, Marc Antony and Octavian, took power after
Caesar was murdered and promised to avenge his death.• They did so but couldn’t get along after Antony divorced his
wife, Octavian’s sister. • Octavian forced Antony to kill himself and gained absolute
power.
Rome Becomes an Empire
• After Octavian, now named Augustus, gained power, Rome became an empire.
• The first 200 years of the empire were called Pax Romana, or Roman peace.
An empire is a land with different people and territories under one single ruler.
During Pax Romana,Rome was in excellent
shape! Trade, new currency, and a stable governmenthelped Rome prosper.
Rome’s Accomplishments
• Romans studied things that would help them live better lives.
• They studied the stars to produce a calendar.
• They studied plants and animals to learn how to grow them larger and provide more food.
Rome’s Accomplishments• Galen, a Roman
doctor, studied the human heart and how it works.
• They used the first cement material.
• They built roads in layers making them so durable that are still around today.
Rome’s Accomplishments
• Romans also mastered the art of building strong, durable bridges by building them with arches.
• These strong arches showed their understanding of engineering.
• They also built aqueducts, or raised waterways that carry water from mountains to valleys.
Many Romanbridges and
aqueducts stillstand today.
Architecture and Literature
• Romans stole many ideas from the Greeks.
• Romans were able to build larger structures than the Greeks because of engineering.
Romance Languages• Because Rome was
an empire, many languages were spoken in its territories.
• Latin was the most important of those languages.
• People wrote, conducted business, and kept records in Latin.
Italian, French,Spanish, Portuguese,
and Romanian are Romancelanguages that developed
from Latin.
English wordslike veto and
circus arefrom Latin.