Goals: Pretests and Tests Classwork/ Study Guides Grading Policy Overhaul Essential Questions

Eng – Social Studies

1. 
   Pretests and Tests
   
2. 
   Classwork/ Study Guides
   
3. 
   Grading Policy Overhaul
   

1. 
   Impact of Religion
   
2. 
   Societies Interact
   
3. 
   Achievements Influence us today
   
4. 
   Societies Organize Themselves
   

Class Period________________

Goal: To understand that the Roman Empire’s achievements continue to influence our society today.

1. 
   Introduction
   

1. 
   Roman law, Roman ________, and Roman ________ ________ were things that all 50 million Romans shared in common.
   
2. 
   The Roman Empire spanned the Mediterranean world, from Northern Africa to the _________ border, from _________ to Syria.
   

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*How does the picture of the Pantheon and the United States Capitol building show that Rome lives on even though the Roman Empire no longer exists?

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1. 
   Rome never solved the problem of how to _________ transfer _________ _______ to a new leader.
   
2. 
   Political rivals with independent armies _______ each other for the emperor’s crown.
   
3. 
   Often, the _________ guard would choose leaders who would reward them.
   

4. 
   To finance Rome’s huge armies, its citizens had to pay _____ ______. This drove people into poverty and hurt trade.
   
5. 
   ______________ was a serious problem. Wealthy landowners used ______ and cheap ________ to work their large estates.
   
6. 
   Workers fled to the city to look for work, but there were not enough _____ for everyone.
   
7. 
   Emperors such as _________ and ____________ wasted large amounts of money.
   
8. 
   A rise in ______ made the empire’s cities and ______ unsafe.
   

9. 
   The _________ size of the empire made it hard to defend.
   
10. 
    ________ tribes were pressing hard on the western borders of the empire. They were eventually recruited into the Roman army, but had little _______ to Rome.
    

1. 
   The emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire _____ miles east to the ancient city of ____________. He renamed the city ______________.
   
2. 
   Istanbul, _________ is the modern location of Constantinople.
   
3. 
   After Constantine’s reign, power was divided between two emperors, one in _________ and one in __________.
   
4. 
   In _____ C.E. the last Emperor of Rome was driven from his throne and the Western Roman Empire dissolved into separate _________.
   
5. 
   The Eastern Roman Empire continued for another ________ years. The Eastern Roman Empire was called the ____________ Empire, after Byzantium, the original name of its capital city.