chapter 15 social studies test
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- census
- population count
- tariffs
- taxes placed on goods brought into the country
- gladiators
- people who fought animals and one other in arenas
- freedmen
- former enslaved people
- jurisprudentes
- special lawyers and legal writers
- domus
- house with marble walls, stone floors, and windows made of small-paned glass
- inflation
- when prices increase
- barter
- exchange goods without using $
- rule by divine right
- empire's powers and right to rule came from the gods
- Augustus
- 27 B.C. - 14 A.D. first emperor of Roman Empire
- Tiberias
- 14 A.D. - 37 A.D. reformed taxes and improved financial state of government
- Octavian
- adopted son of Julius Caeser and became first emperor of Rome
- Diocletian
- 284 - 305 B.C. tried to save Roman Empire from collapse fortified frontiers and reorganzied government
- Constantine
- 312 A.D. - 337 A.D. took firmer control of Empire issued orders to have people follow their fathers' work
- Circus Maximus
- an arena chariot races held there