10.6: Key Terms
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- asceticism
- the practice of self-denial and rejection of pleasures as a way to express religious devotion
- Bedouin
- the name given to nomadic tribes of Arabia
- Code of Justinian
- a legal project carried out by Emperor Justinian to compile and edit Roman edicts issued from the second to the sixth century CE
- ecumenical councils
- meetings organized by emperors that gathered Christian bishops from around the empire to settle matters of doctrine within the Church
- foederati
- foreign states and tribes that were given semiautonomy as Roman allies in exchange for pledging military service to the Roman Empire
- Jewish diaspora
- the dispersion of the Jewish people beyond their ancestral homeland of Israel/Palestine following the Romans’ destruction of the Second Temple
- Late Antiquity
- a transitional period between the ancient and medieval worlds that occurred from roughly 150 to 750 CE
- tetrarchy
- the rule of four emperors, two senior and two junior, established by the emperor Diocletian to quell the Crisis of the Third Century
- Theodosian Code
- a document initiated by the emperor Theodosius II compiling laws from around the empire that had been issued since the early fourth century