Roman Empire PPT AssignmentCreate 15 slides on this PPT. Each slide should include 2 visuals (from the internet), and a definition for the person, word or concept (info can come from the internet or your notes). The Roman Republic has been completed for you already as an example. Remember to save your work at the end of each day. After the final day in the computer lab, grade yourself using the rubric below and send your PPT as an email attachment to Mr. Noyes.

Topics↓ Visuals (2) (2 points)

Definition (2 points)

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Roman Republic 2 2 4Roman Empire 2 2 4Julius Caesar 2 2 4Augustus 2 2 4Nero 2 2 4Constantine 2 2 4Constantinople 2 2 4Roman Aqueducts 2 2 4Roman Coliseum 2 2 4Roman Pantheon 2 2 4Roman Forum 2 2 4Barbarian Invaders 2 2 4Byzantine Empire 2 2 4Roman Catholic Church 2 2 4Eastern Orthodox Church 2 2 4After tallying points for visuals and definition for each of the 10 topics that you have chosen, tally total points in the end column and add them up to find your total score out of 40. Put your total score here

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The Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was a civilization that controlled areas around the Mediterranean Sea for hundreds of years. They elected senators to make laws, and citizens had rights. They were constantly at war with enemies.

Roman Empire

• The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean.[5] The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor, Augustus.

Julius Caesar

• Gaius Julius Caesar[2] (13 July 100 BC[3] – 15 March 44 BC)[4] was a Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

Augustus

• Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.[note 1] Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, he was adopted posthumously by his great-uncle Gaius

Nero• Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus[1]

(15 December 37 – 9 June 68),[2] born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, and commonly known as Nero, was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68. He was the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Constantine

• Caesar Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus[3] (c. 27 February 272[2] – 22 May 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine[4][5], was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337. Best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor,[notes 1] Constantine reversed the persecutions of his predecessor, Diocletian, and issued the Edict of Milan in 313, which proclaimed religious tolerance of Christians throughout the empire.

Constantinople

• Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις, Latin: Constantinopolis, Turkish: Istanbul) was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest[1] and wealthiest city.

• Constantinople as the name of the city was officially deprecated in favor of the Turkish name Istanbul.

Roman Aqueducts

• The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts to serve any large city in their empire, as well as many small towns and industrial sites. The city of Rome had the largest concentration of aqueducts, with water being supplied by eleven aqueducts constructed over a period of about 500 years.

Roman Collisium

• The Colosseum or, The Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.

Roman Pantheon

• The Pantheonis a building in Rome, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD.[2]

Roman Forum

The Roman Forum, also known by its original Latin designation (Latin: Forum Romanum, Italian: Foro Romano), is located between the Palatine Hill and the Capitoline Hill of the city of Rome, Italy. Citizens of the ancient city referred to the location as the "Forum Magnum" or just the "Forum". It is part of the centralised area around which the ancient Roman civilization developed.

Barbarian Invaders

• The first series of Europe invasions begun on the 5th century when tribes of germanic origin launched invasions

to the Roman Empire lands. But this attack wasn't spontaneous but due to the pressure of the Huns that

where moving from central Asia to Europe, taking the lands of the germanic tribes. Finally the Huns invaded the Roman

Empire, but where defeated in the battle of Campos Catalaunicos with the aid of the Visigoths. Rome in the next

years suffered the attack of many barbarian tribes, but it wasn't prepared like in the past to resist. In the 5th century Rome was in the middle of an economic, social and political

crisis.

Byzantine Empire

• The Byzantine Empire (or Byzantium) was the Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered around its capital of Constantinople, and ruled by emperors in direct succession to the ancient Roman emperors.

Roman Catholic Church

• The Roman Catholic Church (more commonly known as simply the Catholic Church) is the world's largest Christian church, claiming over a billion members.[1] Its leader is the Pope.

Eastern Orthodox Church

• The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church [note 1] and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church,[4] is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles almost 2,000 years ago.