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PRE AP WORLD HISTORY

DECLINE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

1. The importance of Peter and Paul.

1. What caused the Diaspora?

2. The last of the Five Good Emperors.

3. 5 reasons for the success of the empire during the Pax Romana.

4. What is “heresy”?

5. What is importance of Diocletian? Who was his Co-Emperor?

6. What is importance of Justinian?

7. What is importance of Constantine?

8. Who was St. Augustine and what did he do?

9. The effect of Attila the Hun.

10. Importance of Pope Leo I.

11. The last Roman Emperor.

12. Who replaced the last Roman Emperor?

13. Why did the Eastern Empire succeed while the Western Empire was destroyed? At least 3 reasons

14. Difference between Hellenistic and Greco/Roman culture.

15. Examples of the legacy of Rome.

16. The role of the Army in the decline of the Empire.

17. Role of the middle class in the decline of the Empire.

18. Role of the Patricians in the decline of the Empire.

19. How did the wise Emperors keep the army from seizing power?

20. What was the Augustan system?

21. What prompted the migrations of the barbarians?

22. What role did Christianity play in the decline of the Empire?

23. Why did Augustus order a census in 32 AD?

24. Why did Nero persecute the Christians in Rome?

25. Who was the only emperor to persecute the Christians across the whole of the Empire?

26. Why did the Romans generally practice religious tolerance?

27. What are the dates of Augustus’ rule?

28. What is a princeps? Why is it significant?

29. Why was the succession to emperor such a problem in the empire?

30. What is meant by trying to solve problems by the use of bread and circuses?

31. Who was Cicero?

32. What was the Circus Maximus?

33. What did Horace mean when he said that “Greece has conquered her rude conqueror”?

34. What was the purpose of the writing of the Aeneid?

35. What is considered the date of the end of the Roman Empire?

36. What is tax farming? What role did it play in the decline?

37. What effect did the climate have on the decline of the empire?

38. Why did Diocletian’s division of the empire hasten its decline?

39. Why did Diocletian divide the empire?

40. What was the Edict of Milan? What was its date?

41. What is the difference between the Pope and the Patriarch?

42. What were some of the reasons for the persecution of Christians?

43. Who was most responsible for making Christianity a separate religion rather than a sect within Judaism?

44. What is the agreed upon date of the birth of Jesus?

45. Why were the Jews exempt for a while from the worship of the state gods?

46. What were the two systems of law developed by the Romans?

47. Why did Stoicism appeal to the Romans?

48. What were the Mystery Religions? How would they have helped prepare the Romans for Christianity?

49. How does Roman sculpture differ from Greek sculpture?

50. Gibbon once said the Christianity was responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire. Why would this not be completely true?

51. What are dioceses?

52. What ideas of Plato would appeal to the early Christians?

53. Who was Theodosius and what was his significance?

54. What battle marked the end of the expansion of the Empire?

55. What were the natural physical limits of the empire?

56. How was continual expansion a factor in maintaining the Pax Romana?

57. What prompted the great barbarian migrations into the empire?

58. What were the reasons for the Jewish revolt in Judea in 66 AD?

59. What Germanic leader ended the empire?

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