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A school whose curriculum centered on music, physical exercise, and literature.
Gymnasium
Assumption that deities were the same beings with different names.
Syncretism
Doctrine of “pleasure”. Freedom from emotional turmoil, worry etc.
Epicureanism
Mystery Religions
Union with a savior god or goddess who had died and risen again.
Stoicism
Living in harmony with nature
Imperium
"the right to rule"
Paterfamilias
head of the family (male), had unlimited power
Men whose families were elected to more important political offices in the republic
Nobiles
A social group who once belonged to Rome’s cavalry (military on horses)
Equestrians
Latifundia
large land estates
Dictator
would be chosen to run the state in an emergency. Limited to 6 months.
Eucharist
a Christian ceremony remembering the Last Supper
Romanization
The process by which Roman culture and institutions were spread to the provinces
Name the Good Emperors (5)
the five emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius)
Praetorian Guard
The military unit that served as the personal body guards of the Roman emperors.
Pax Romana
"Roman Peace"
