Rome and Rise of Christianity
Larry Simons
NC Essential Standards:
WH.1.3
WH.1.5
WH.2.2
WH.2.3
WH.2.4
WH.2.5
WH.2.7
WH.2.8
Analyze cause and effect relationships and multiple causation.
Evaluate the influence of the past on contemporary Issues
Analyze the governments of ancient civilization in terms of their development, structure…democracy, oligarchy, tyranny,
aristocracy…
Explain how codifying laws met the needs of ancient societies…Draco, Justinian, Theodosius…
Analyze the rise and spread of various empires in terms of influence, achievements, and lasting impact…
Analyze the development and growth of major Eastern and Western religions…Christianity…
Analyze the relationship between trade routes and the development and decline of major empires…Rome…
Compare the conditions, racial composition, and status of social classes…slaves in ancient societies and change…
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Describe Roman achievement through
Political analysis.
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Roman Legion
Res Publica – Republic
o Senate
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Consul
Patrician
Plebeian
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Tribune
Veto
Laws of the 12 Tables
Rome’s greatest Achievement – Law and
Justice
Analyze the relationship between trade routes
impacting Rome and the development and
decline of major empires
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Divisions of Judaism
Zealots
Masada - Diaspora
Dictator
Describe how Roman principles of law affect
life in the United States today
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Describe the factions of Judaism under
Roman rule.
Imperialism
o Punic Wars
o Hannibal
o Mare Nostrum
Recall the individual people and the
organizational structures that helped establish
the early Christian Church
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Jesus
Apostles
Peter
Paul – Pauline Christianity
Constantine
Theodosius
Recall how military, political, social, and
economic factors combine to cause the fall of
the Western Roman Empire
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Diocletian
Constantine - Constantinople
Huns - Attila
Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals
Odoacer of Heruli (476 AD)
What factors led to the decline of the Roman
Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire
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Pompey
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Cleopatra
Octavian
Pax Romana – Augustus to Aurelius
Recall the accomplishments of Justinian and
how his last attempt to reunite the Roman
Empire Failed
 Hagia Sophia
 Fiadora
 Bubonic Plague