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Pax Romana
Vocabulary words that go with BrainPop - Pax Romana
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Augustus Caesar | created bureaucracy and hired citizens to enforce laws and run government programs |
| Bureaucracy | a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives |
| Public works | roads, bridges, monuments |
| Coliseum | where gladiator fights took place |
| Circuses | huge spectacles that emperors arranged to keep people entertained |
| Gladiators | trained slaves who fought each other and sometimes animals to the death |
| Latin | language Romans spoke and wrote in and it spread all over the empire |
| Marcus Aurelius | emperor when Rome was so big it was difficult for one person to govern |