Ch. 6 Ancient Rome and Early Christianity 500 B.C.- A.D. 500

Jesus based many of his teachings on monotheism, the Ten Commandments, and other ideas from the Jewish region.

• True

• False

Most of the information about Jesus’ life comes from the first four books of the New Testament called the Epistles.

• True

• False

One of Jesus’ disciples was a man named Peter, whom Jesus referred to as the “rock” on which the Christain Church would be built.

• True

• False

A later convert to Christainity, Paul, wrote letters to the faithful, which became part of the New Testament.

• True

• False

The Roman Empire forced Christians into exile in a dispersal called the Diaspora.

• True

• False

The first Roman emperor to accept Christianity was Nero.

• True

• False

The people of the Roman town of Pompeii were killed by?

• a flood

• a volcano

• an earthquake

• a Hun invasion

The great Roman epic, the Aeneid, was written by?

• Ovid

• Horace

• Virgil

• Tacitus

The accurate histories of Rome, Annals and Histories, were written by?

• Livy

• Tacitus

• Ovid

• Vespasian

The family of languages that developed from Latin are called?

• Derived languages.

• Classical languages.

• Romance languages.

• Greco-Roman languages.