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chapter 6
capter 6
Question | Answer |
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Republic | A politcal system in which the citizens of a region elect representives to run the goverment. |
Patricians | A class of powerful landowners in ancient Rome who controlled the goverment and society. |
plebeians | Farmers or workers, who made up a large part of the population in ancient Rome. |
veto | Ban. |
Forum | The assembly place of an ancient roman city. |
constition | A politaical sturcture. |
senate | A body of legislators. |
consuls | The cheif executives elected to run the government in acient Rome |
dictator | A political leader holding unlimited power. |
Gracchi | Roman statesmen; they tried to help ex- soldiers in Rome by redistuting public land to small farmers |
Julius Caesar | He help rome get a lot of territory. |
triumvirate | he took over the Roman Republic. |
Augustus | first emperor of Rome; he established the Second Triumvirate with Mark Antony and Lepidus. |
Pax Romana | 180 AD is in the time of Pax romana. |
Villa | A home in the country |
circuses | the site of chariot races in acient Rome. |
augurs | Priests in acient Rome who specialized in interpretation of the natural phenomena sent by the gods. |
galen | he was a physician. |
aqueducts | he made channels used to bring water to the cities. |
Latian | |
civil law | |
paterfamilias |