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The Roman Legacy
E. Napp
Objective: To identify and describe Roman achievements still impacting the world today
Do Now: Multiple-choice questions from previous lessons
|In both ancient Mesopotamia and the Roman republic, an important |4. Which development is most closely associated with the beginning of |
|feature of life was |the Byzantine Empire? |
|A codified set of laws |(1) emergence of the Russian Orthodox Church |
|Aqueducts to provide water |(2) division of the Roman Empire |
|Social and political equality for all |(3) building of the Hagia Sophia |
|A willingness to accept Christianity |(4) fall of Constantinople |
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|In Western Europe, which development was a cause of the other three? |The major reasons for the Pax Romana was that the Romans |
|Warfare disrupted trade |Conquered the Mediterranean world |
|Travel became unsafe because of violence |Reached an agreement with Carthage |
|Cities, towns, and villages were abandoned |Followed the Code of Hammurabi |
|The Roman empire fell to barbarians |Allowed complete religious freedom |
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|All of the following were reasons for the fall of Rome except |After the fall of Rome, the eastern portion of the Roman Empire became|
|Barbarian invasions |known as |
|High Taxes |Persian Empire |
|Corrupt Emperors |Byzantine Empire |
|Successful Military Campaigns |Mongol Empire |
| |Gupta Empire |
Cornell Notes Outline: The Legacy of the Romans (Add Key Words and Summaries)
|The Key Words: |The Notes: |
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| |The Romans became blenders and adapters of many cultures over the centuries that they ruled their vast |
| |Empire |
| |Preserved Greek and Hellenistic culture |
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| |Roman Law |
| |Flowing from the Twelve Tables (c. 450 B.C.E.) |
| |Precise in logic and organization |
| |Ideas like innocent until proven guilty and equality of citizens before the law |
| |Influenced later European legal systems |
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| |Latin |
| |Common tongue of the Empire |
| |Helped to unify a vast region |
| |Became the language of the Christian Church |
| |Continued to be the intellectual language of Europe for more than 1000 years |
| |Basis of five modern, Romance languages |
| |Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian |
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| |Cultural Impact |
| |Roman engineers and architects adapted columns and stonemasonry of the Greeks and other civilizations |
| |to build an infrastructure (transportation and communication systems) |
| |Roads and aqueducts |
| |Columns, arches, and domes |
| |Temples like the Pantheon |
| |Literature |
| |Roman poets such as Virgil and Ovid |
| |Horace and Juvenal wrote to amuse and entertain |
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|The Summaries: | |
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Working with Documents:
Document 1
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List principles of Roman law that show the Romans were concerned with protecting the rights of the defendant?
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Document 2
Excerpt from the Twelve Tables
• If anyone summons a man before the magistrate [judge], he must go…
• One who has confessed a debt, or against whom a judgment has been pronounced, shall have thirty days to pay it. After that, seizure of his person is allowed.
• Females should remain in guardianship even when they have become adults.
• If one has broken a bone of a freeman with his hand or with a club, let him pay a penalty of three hundred coins. If he has broken the bone of a slave, let him have one hundred and fifty coins. If one is guilty of insult, the penalty should be twenty-five coins.
1. List Roman laws that clearly influenced modern laws in the West today and Roman laws that are no longer used in the West today.
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Using the chart above, answer the following questions:
1. List writers influenced by the Romans.
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2. How has Roman art influenced the history of art?
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3. Describe Roman architecture.
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4. How does Latin still influence people today?
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According to the passage, what are two scientific achievements of the Romans?
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According to the passage, what are two “engineering” achievements of the Romans? ________________________________________________________________________________
Why is the passage ironic (expressing something other than the literal meaning)?
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Excerpt from
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
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