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Georgia
Chapter 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sec1. res publica | "Public affairs" |
| Sec1. Republic | A government in which power is in the hands of representatives and leader |
| Sec1. Patricians | Wealthy land owners. Privileged upper class. Held most of the power. |
| Sec1. Plebeians | Common farmers, artisans, and merchants who made up most of the population. |
| Sec1. Tribunes | An official elected by the plebeians to defend their rights. |
| Sec2. Legion | A military unit of the ancient roman army's made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers and another group of soldiers on horseback. |
| Sec2. triumvirate | A group of three rulers |
| Sec2. Pax Romana | A period of peace and prosperity through out the Roman Empire. (27BC-180AD) |
| Sec2.Civil service | Paying workers to manage the affairs of government, such as the grain supply, tax collection, and he postal system. |
| Sec2. Denarius | An ancient roman silver coin originally worth ten donkeys. |
| Sec2. Numina | Powerful spirits or Devine forces. |
| Sec1. Hannibal | Carthaginian General in the second Punic war. Repeatedly defeated the Romans but failed to take over Rome itself. |
| Sec3. apostle | Follower of Jesus who preached and spread his teaching. |
| Sec3. scapegoat | A goat sent into the wilderness after the Main Cheif priest had symbolically laid the peoples sins on it. |
| Sec3. Diaspora | When the Jews left their homeland. |
| Sec3. hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above another according to status or authority. |
| Sec3. bishop | Senior member of the Christian clergy typically I charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders. |
| Sec3. Pope | The bishop of Rome as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Sec4. Inflation | A general increase in prices, and fall in the purchasing value of money. |
| Sec4. Mercenary | Foreign soldiers who fought for money. |
| Sec4. Constantinople | The former name of Istanbul when it was given its name by Constantine the Great until the early 20th century. |
| Sec4. Huns | A member of a warlike Asiatic nomadic people who ravaged Europe in the 4th and 5th centuries. |
| Sec4. Attila | King of the Huns. Very violent king. |
| Sec4. Pirates | People who would attack and rob ships at sea. |
| Sec5. Greco-Roman culture | The mixing of elements of Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman cultures. |
| Sec5. Pompeii | An ancient city in western Italy. |
| Sec5. Virgil | A poet famous for Latin Literature. |
| Sec5. Tacitus | A historian who has many famous annals in the Roman Empire. |
| Sec5. aqueducts | An artificial channel for conveying water, usually in the form of a bridge with tall coulombs across a valley. |
| Sec5. Aeneid | Latin epic poem in twelve books written by Virgil which relates to the travels and experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy. |
| Sec1. Consul | An official appointed by a government to live In a foreign city and protect the promote of the governments citizens and interests there. |
| Sec2. Civil war | Conflict between two groups in the same country. |
| Sec3. Christos | A Greek word meaning messiah or savior. |
| Sec4. Diocletian | A strong willed army leader who became the new emperor in 284AD. |
| Sec5. bas-relief sculptures | Sculptures with images that project from flat backgrounds that usually tell a story. |
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