Ch 11 Rome and Christianity

Question 1

The emperor believed that by banning certain Jewish rituals, people would

Accepted Answer

give up Judaism

Question 2

By the end of the AD 100s, the only threats to the Roman Empire came from outside of the empire

Accepted Answer

false

Question 3

What is one similarity between Christmas and Easter?

Accepted Answer

Neither is based on an exact date in history.

Question 4

Which of the following best describes why many people became followers of Jesus?

Accepted Answer

He traveled and taught them about his ideas

Question 5

After Caesar's rule, Octavian

Accepted Answer

worked to capture Caesar's killers

Question 6

Early Christians spread the teachings of Jesus only among Jews.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 7

Caesar took the title princeps, or “first citizen.”

Accepted Answer

false

Question 8

People who follow the teachings of another person

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disciples

Question 9

Outlying areas that Rome controlled

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Provinces

Question 10

Punishing a group because of its beliefs

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persecution

Question 11

Which word best describes the Roman approach to science and engineering?

Accepted Answer

practical

Question 12

A person who is a public speaker

Accepted Answer

orator

Question 13

People conquered by the Romans were generally allowed to worship whatever gods they pleased

Accepted Answer

true

Question 14

A person who dies for his or her religious beliefs

Accepted Answer

Martyr

Question 15

A word that means “God’s chosen one” in Hebrew

Accepted Answer

Messiah

Question 16

Between 58 and 50 BC Julius Caesar conquered nearly all of__

Accepted Answer

Gaul

Question 17

Most people in the Byzantine Empire spoke ___

Accepted Answer

Greek

Question 18

Romans frequently made payments to the Goths. This system was essentially a way to prevent the

Accepted Answer

Goths from attacking Rome

Question 19

Early Christians believed that the Resurrection meant that Jesus was the Messiah

Accepted Answer

true

Question 20

Roman roads were built primarily in order to allow

Accepted Answer

Rome's armies to travel through the empire

Question 21

The __tells about the life and teachings of Jesus

Accepted Answer

New Testament

Question 22

What effect did Theodora have on the riots in AD 532?

Accepted Answer

She helped the emperor put an end to the uprisings

Question 23

The Roman Empire fell for all of the following reasons except

Accepted Answer

lack of leadership

Question 24

A legal system based on a written code of laws

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civil law

Question 25

Which of the following best summarizes an effect the military battles had on farming?

Accepted Answer

There were not enough farmers to grow food

Question 26

A famous Roman poet

Accepted Answer

Ovid

Question 27

The Romans created lasting structures by using __

Accepted Answer

Arches

Question 28

Why Roman emperors by the end of the AD 100s started giving up land the Roman army conquered

Accepted Answer

feared the empire had become too large to defend efficiently

Question 29

The decay of people’s values

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corruption

Question 30

A religion that began in the first century AD

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Christianity

Question 31

Which is the main reason why the Roman language spread to the farthest parts of the empire?

Accepted Answer

The Romans conducted business in their language

Question 32

Romans called the capital of the eastern empire

Accepted Answer

Constantinople

Question 33

What effect did the occupation of Judea have on the Roman Empire?

Accepted Answer

it caused the Jews to rebel against Roman rule

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