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Ancient Rome
Term | Definition | Example |
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AENEAS | A GREAT WAR HERO FROM THE TROJAN WAR | EX: Aeneas would find them willing and powerful allies. |
ROMULUS | HE AND REMUS ARE RAISED BY WOLVES AND THAT WAS THE ONES THAT FOUND ROME | EX: In front of the throne is the Capitoline Wolf suckly Romulus and Remus. |
REMUS | HE AND ROMULUS ARE RAISED BY WOLVES AND THAT WAS THE ONES THAT FOUND ROME | EX: In front of the throne is the Capitoline Wolf suckly Romulus and Remus. |
DICTATOR | POLITICAL LEADER WHO POSSESSES ABSOLUTE POWER | EX: The dictator sought to aggrandise himself by new conquests. |
CINCINNATUS | HE WAS A GREAT DICTATOR TO HIS PEOPLE AND THEY SAID THAT HE WAS A IDEAL LEADER | EX: Romilly was introduced to Mirabeau by Sir Francis D'Ivernois (1757-1842), and readily undertook to translate into English the Considerations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus, which Mirabeau had written in 1785. |
REPUBLIC | POLITICAL SYSTEM IN WHICH PEOPLE ELECT LEADERS TO GOVERN THEM | EX: The republic is a melting pot of different nationalities. |
PATRICIANS | NOBILITY IN ROMAN SOCIETY | EX: The patrician caste ruled in camp and court. |