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Greco-Roman Culture - The mixing of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman Culture Pompeii - Early painting Virgil - A poet who spent four hundred writing the most famous work of Latin Literature Tacitus - A roman historian Aqueduct - To help bring water to the cities/towns 5. Latin was the language in Rome, and remained the language of learning in the West long after the Romana Empire fell.  It was also the language for the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century.

Predestination - People God chose from the beginning  Calvinism - Based on Calvin's teachings Theocracy - Government controlled by religious authorities Presbyterian - Followers of Knox Anabaptist - Baptize again Catholic Reformation - Helping  Catholics remain loyal was a movement within the catholic church Jesuits - Members of the society of Jesus Council of Trent - Catholic bishops and Cardinals agreed on several doctrines 3. He Believed that they were chosen ahead of time and would be saved God no matter what. 4. 

Inflation - A drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise in prices Mercenary - Foreign Soldiers who fought for money Diocletian - A strong-willed army leader, became the new emperor Constantinople - A cities name or referred to as Constantine Attila - A powerful chieftain's name 3. Germanic Forces drove out / destroyed the Empire 4. He ruled with an iron fist and severely limited personal freedoms 5. The Germanic Forces invaded Rome mostly due to unifying under the leader named Attila and working as a team to destroy Rome

Renaissance: Means rebirth and refers to a revival of art and learning Humanism: An intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements Secular: Worldly rather than spiritual and concerned with the here and now Patron: People who spend a lot of money on a certain kind of art for a long time Perspective: Shows three dimensions on a flat surface Vernacular: a type of language 2. Some of Italy's advantageous was 3. Some of the characteristics were that they all made amazing art/brought it back from it previous dormant state of being forgotten 4. 5.

Today in my Western Civilization class my class and I took a test about Rome, the entire test was multiple choice questions and I honestly don't think that I did well on this particular test.  I mean I did study a lot before the test, but as soon as I started taking it  I completely lost everything that I had studied.  I am not the best test taker, but everything else is pretty good for the most part, I do well on papers/projects, but tests are not my strong suit.  The test had  question that asked who certain peole were like who Nero was, who Tiberius was, etc.

Today in my Western Civilization class my class and I studied/reviewed how the Government came to be in a PowerPoint presented to us by our teacher.  Today was also the first day of seeing Mr. Schick since his surgery, he looked to be in good health and was, as always in a cheery mood.  We studied things such as the executive, judicial, and legislative branch of the government.   The American Government is taken almost exactly from the previous Roman one.    A strong military leader was chosen as the head of the Executive Branch, it has since been more career politicians.   The Legislative Branch was made up of Senators that came from wealthy individuals or families / backgrounds, not much has changed since then as it’s pretty much the same today.   The Judicial Branch spoke more, as it does now, for the common man.