Terms
Chapters 6-9
Western Civilization 101
Spielvogel, 7th ed.

Ch. 6

pax Romana
Augustus (Octavian)
Virgil/Horace/Ovid
Greco-Roman culture
principate/prince
“First Citizen of the State”
imperium
magistrates
consuls
Lyons, France
Romanization
Roman army
auxiliaries
praetorian guard
legions
Tiberius
insulae
Agrippa
Julio-Claudians (14-68 AD)
Claudius
Nero
Vespasian
Flavian Dynasty (69-96 AD)
Titus
Mount Vesuvius
Five Good Emperors (96-180 AD)
Hadrian
Golden Age
barbarians
Latin
Silk Road
latifundia
coloni
Seneca
Tacitus
Juvenal
Circus Maximus
Colosseum
gladiator
Diocles
Rome
life in the provinces
Latin
medicine
infanticide
birth control 
silver age
Rome
Christianity
Pontius Pilate
Jesus of Nazareth
King Herod (37-4 BC)
Sanhedrin
Judaea
Messiah
Jews/Gentiles
zealots
apocalyptics
John the Baptist
pagans/polytheists
Four Gospels of the New Testament
Paul of Tarsus
catacombs
Lord’s Supper
p. 171-  Paul of Tarsus
p. 202 - Justinian/contribution to Western Civ.
p. 207 - differences between Christianity and Islam
p. 208 - what are caliphs
p. 218 - scriptoria/Carolingian Renaissance
p. 233 - Early Middle Ages economic structure
p. 260 - significance of Paris and university

Ch. 7

Diocletian
dominate
tetrarchy
Constantine
Theodosius I
Arcadius
Honorius
Constantinople
Istanbul, Turkey
Ravenna
Rome
Edward Gibbon
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Great Persecution
solar henotheist
Sol
Edict of Milan
Sunday
Church
catholic
heresy
Arianism
Nicene Creed
Donatism
Council of Nicea
Germanic kingdoms
Atilla the Hun
Visigoths
Alaric
Burgundians
Vandals
Angles
Saxons
Ostrogoths
Franks
Lombards
Odoacer
Zeno
Theodoric
Eastern Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Clovis
Merovingian Dynasty
Charles Martel
Celtic Britons
Arthurian legends
wergeld
Salic Law
Christianity
syncretic faith
Judaism
Orphism
Hellenism
ekklesia
the Church
bishops
orthodox doctrine
apostate
Augustine (354-430)
City of God
original sin
celibacy
misogyny
chastity
Christian asceticism
Jerome
Latin Vulgate
Petrine Doctrine
pope
Saint Peter
Pope Leo I
Bishop Ambrose of Milan
Pope Gregory the Great
hermits
monasticism
The Rule of St. Benedict
Mepkin Abbey
nuns
Ireland
Celtic tradition
St. Patrick
Celtic Christianity
Roman Christianity
Northumbria
Cassiodorus
liberal arts
trivium
quadrivium
grammar 
rhetoric
logic
arithmetic
geometry
music theory 
astronomy
Byzantine Empire
Procopius
Greek fire
Justinian
Justinian Plague
Code of Law
Theodora
Constantinople
Hagia Sophia
Hippodrome
Roman Catholicism
Greek Orthodox
Islam
Mecca
Medina
Muhammad (570-632)
Allah
Bedouins
Hejaz
Saudi Arabia
Kaaba
the Prophet
caliph
Qur’an (Koran)
similarities of the three world religions
shi-ites
Sunnis
Sunna
Spain and Muslims
Arabic numerals
Muslim-Christians
Mozarabs
infidel
Umayyad caliphate
Damascus
Bede
iconoclasm

Ch. 8

Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages
Merovingian Dynasty
Pepin the Short
Gaul
Charlemagne
Carolingian Dynasty
missi dominici
Pope Leo III
Carolingian Renaissance
Vulgate
Carolingian miniscule
scriptoria
Alcuin
monogamy
divorce
nuclear family
children’s lives
lodging
diet
alcohol
bathing
health
Louis the Pious
Treaty of Verdun
Charles the Bald
Louis the German
Lothar
Manors
Muslims
Magyars
Vikings
Danelaw
Normandy
Rollo
Dukes
Otto I
Capetian Dynasty
Hugh Capet
England
King Alfred the Great of Wessex
vernacular
Canute
feudal system
fideles
fiefs
feudalism
vassals (knights)
lords
those who prayed - monks
those who fought - knights
those who worked – peasants
ladies
convents
homage
serf
tithe
demesne
stirrup
primogeniture
manorialism
manor
trade
slave
Slavs
Michael III
Photian Schism
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Byzantine Empire
Macedonian Dynasty
Western Slavs
Southern Slavs
Eastern Slavs
Vikings (Rus)
Novgorod
Kiev
Islam
Abbasid Dynasty
Baghdad
caliph
emir
Cordoba

Ch. 9

population growth
High Middle Ages
farming techniques
heavy, wheeled plow
carruca
horse collar
horseshoes
watermills
windmills
three-field system
crop rotation
peasantry
Christmas
Easter
Pentecost
aristocracy/nobility
Peace of God
Truce of God
castles
vernacular
Occitan
Arabs and Hebrews
troubadours
cortesia
courtly love
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Blanche of Castile
jongleur
minnesinger
trouvére
chanson de geste
King Arthur
Chrétien de Troyes
Chivalry
tournaments
melee
jousting tournaments
marriages
Venice
Flanders
commercial capitalism
bourgeoisie
mayor
London, England
guilds
raw wool
master craftsman
journeyman/journeywoman
apprentice
“putting out” system
universities
University of Paris
University of Bologna
trivium
quadrivium
town and gown struggles
scholasticism
Peter Abelard
Sic et Non
realists
nominalists
summa
Thomas Aquinas
Gothic architecture
Romanesque
Abbot Suger