Chapter 11
Study Guide
Key
Assessment Date:
Thursday, April 23rd
People to Know and
Vocabulary:
• Cicero- A gifted speaker and lawyer in Ancient
Rome who wanted power to be taken from people
like Julius Caesar and given back to the senate.
• Caesar- A brilliant war general for Rome who took
over and declared himself “Dictator for Life.”
• Octavian/Augustus- Caesar’s adopted son and
heir. After a feud with Marc Antony, he becomes
the first emperor of Rome.
• Marc Antony- Caesar’s former assistant who helped
hunt down his killers with Octavian.
People to Know and
Vocabulary:
• Goths- People who were being attacked by the Huns
and fled into the Roman Empire. They eventually attack
the Romans as well.
• Huns- Fierce warriors from Central Asia who attacked the
Roman Empire.
• Diocletian- The emperor of Rome who split the empire
into two and ruled the east.
• Justinian- An emperor of the eastern empire who helped
spread Byzantine culture.
• Constantine- The first Christian Roman emperor who
reunited the empire and moved the capital to the east.
• Corruption- The decay of values (bribery, threats, in
gov’t)
Concepts: Julius Caesar/End
of the Republic
• What are specific things that Caesar did to gain
power in Rome? (11.1 Magnet Notes)
• He gave speeches where he promised to fix Rome’s
problems.
• He fed the poor and threw parties for the rich.
• He was a general who took over Gaul for Rome.
• He made an alliance with Pompey and Crassus.
Who was Pompey, what
ended up happening to him?
(11.1 Magnet Notes)
• He was a general in Rome who made an alliance
with Caesar and Crassus to rule. The senate wanted
him to take over, but Caesar brought his army in to
Rome to challenge him and Pompey fled. He was
killed in Egypt by an Egyptian King.
Why was Caesar killed?
• 3 main guesses:
• 1. The senate was jealous of his popularity over
them.
• 2. The senate wanted him out of the picture
because they thought he would want to become
the king of Rome.
• 3. He might have walked into his death because he
wanted to be remembered.
External causes for the fall
of Rome:
• Barbarian Invasions- barbarians were anyone from
outside of the empire.
• Disease- came in from outside of the empire.
Internal Reasons
• Lead Poisoning- caused the elite to slowly lose
sanity.
• Disease- killed off the people of Rome.
• Size- Rome was too big to govern and
communication was hard.
• Taxes- the poor suffered from constant high taxes to
pay for their military budget.
• Corruption- Dishonest leaders would cheat and
bribe to get what they wanted.