Exam 5: The Roman Empire

Diocletian divided the empire into four parts, led by a quartet known as the ________.

When the bishop of Milan excommunicated emperor Theodosius I for ordering a massacre, the emperor ________.

Although he was arguably reflecting the society around him, ________ was exiled for writing that was considered out of step with Augustan ideals of morality.

Less than a hundred years after the crucifixion, membership in the Christian community was ________.

Imperial Rome made great engineering advances, including the use of vaults and domes, both forms adapted from Etruscan semi-circular ________.

Septimius Severus changed conditions in the Roman army for what reason?

By 212 c.e.almost every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire was granted ________.

Manichaeans, whose faith combined elements of Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Judaism, believed the world to be ________.

________ shared his imperial power with three other men.

The Roman authorities were suspicious of Christians because they ________.

Silver Age literature, produced between the death of Augustus and the reign of Marcus Aurelius, reflected the times. In contrast to Augustan work, Silver Age writing was ________.

Constantine moved his court to Constantinople (modern Istanbul).What were the consequences of removing the Roman Emperor from Rome itself? Can you defend the move? Why or why not?

Which of the following was NOT a part of elite Roman women's lives?

Adherents to the imperial cult worshipped the emperor more as a(an) ________ than as a religious act.

Although Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, eastern provinces continued to use _______.

Constantinople was easily defensible, because of its location ________.

Augustus introduced laws intended to proscribe moral behavior.What sort of behavior was codified, and who do you think would have suffered the most prosecution from these laws?

Although the military had social mobility in the empire, a new class system was legally recognized between the lower classes, humiliores, and the upper classes, ________.

In 311, Galerius issued the Edict of Toleration, permitting Christian worship.He was perhaps influenced by ________.

"Circuses" were named for their ________.