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The Roman Republic became the Roman Empire in 27 BCE when Julius Caesar's adopted son, best known as Augustus, became the ruler of Rome. The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization.

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1. A person trained to fight another person to the death for public entertainment
Image: Gladiator

2. King of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)
Image: Alaric

3. A system of beliefs and values
Image: philosophy

4. One of Justinian's most important military commanders during period of reconquest of western Europe; commanded in north Africa and Italy

5. A body of water by Mediterranean Sea that touches the borders of Greece & Asia Minor. It also has many islands in it, including Crete.
Image: Aegean Sea

6. touching or meeting; association; connection
Image: contact

7. The wife of Justinian, she helped to improve the status of women in the Byzantine Empire and encouraged her husband to stay in Constantinople.
Image: Theodora

8. (245-313) Emperor of Rome who was responsible for dividing Rome into different provinces and districts.
Image: Diocletian

9. Decided that the eastern and western parts should become separate empires.

One empire was the Western Roman Empire, with its capital remaining at Rome. The other was the Eastern Roman Empire, with its capital city at Constantinople.
Image: Theodosius

10. Roman Peace
Image: Pax Romana

11. structures, usually curved, that span an opening
Image: Arches

12. the eastern portion of the Roman empire; lasted 1000 years after the fall of Western Rome.

Byzantium later becomes Constantinople
Image: Byzantium

13. A Roman historian who presented the facts accurately. He wrote about the good and the bad of imperial Rome in his Annals and Histories.
Image: Tacitus

14. One of a group of Germanic tribes who invaded and destroyed territory in the Roman empire.
Image: Vandals

15. Head of Justinian's legal scholars who reformed the law code into a new amplified version.

16. A structure that carries water over long distances
Image: aqueduct

17. The study of body structure
Image: anatomy

18. Wrote satires (works that poked fun at human weaknesses, much like comedians do today). Horace also wrote odes (or poems that express strong emotions about life).

19. Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code

20. a deadly disease that affected the Byzantine Empire during the sixth century

21. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
Image: mosaic

22. An ancient Greek stadium used for horse and chariot racing
Image: Hippodrome

23. A collection of laws that reflected Christian values

24. Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.
Image: Byzantine Empire

25. The open central court with enclosed rooms on all sides.
Image: Roman atrium

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