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Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Modern day country where Rome is located | Italy |
| A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides | Peninsula |
| Man who killed his twin brother and founded Rome (he named it after himself) | Romulus |
| Twin brother of Romulus | Remus |
| Trojan war hero whom Romans trace their history back to | Aeneas |
| Type of government where people elect leaders to govern them | Republic |
| Rulers with absolute power | Dictator |
| Famous Roman dictator who resigned his position before his term was over because Rome's problems were solved | Cincinnatus |
| Common people of Rome who wanted more control in the government | Plebeians |
| Wealthy people of Rome who controlled much of the government | Patricians |
| Elected officials of Rome | Magistrates |
| 2 most powerful magistrates | Consuls |
| Group of powerful Romans who advised the consuls | Senate |
| Official language of Rome | Latin |
| Rome's public meeting place | Forum |
| Government bodies that represented the common people | Assemblies and Tribunes |
| Rome's written law code | The Law of Twelve Tables |
| Law code that is written down | Civil Law |
| Groups of Roman soldiers | Legions |
| Wars between Rome and Carthage | Punic Wars |
| General from Carthage that led elephants across the Alps | Hannibal |
| 2 brothers who served as tribunes and created many farms in Rome; killed because of their ideas | Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus |
| Roman leader who allowed any man to join the army and not just ones with property | Gaius Marius |
| Powerful Roman who seized power from Gaius Marius and became a dictator | Sulla |
| Former gladiator who led a revolt for the freedom of the slaves | Spartacus |
| Powerful Roman general who became dictator for life and was later murdered by senators | Julius Caesar |
| Members of the First Triumvirate | Pompey Crassus Julius Caesar |
| Caesar's good friend and assistant who co--ruled with Octavian for a tie | Marc Antony |
| Caesar's adopted son who later became the Roman emperor Augustus | Octavian |
| Egyptian queen who caused a rift between Marc Antony and Octavian | Cleopatra |
| Rome's first emperor who made many internal improvements in the city; formerly known as Octavian | Augustus |
| Roman emperor who built a huge wall in Britain to mark the boundary between Roman and non-Roman territory | Hadrian |
| 200 year period of Roman peace and prosperity | Pax Romana |
| Roman city that was buried when Mt. Vesuvius erupted | Pompeii |
| Bloody fight to the death matches held in arenas such as the Colosseum; favorite Roman entertainment | Gladiator games |
| Purpose of the Roman Road network | Move military Trade |
| Doctor who studied the circulatory system (heart, arteries, veins) | Galen |
| Roman structure used to bring fresh water into the city and unclean water out | Aqueduct |
| Wrote the Aenid | Virgil |
| Type of writing that pokes fun at politics or society | Satire |
| Languages that developed from Latin | Romance Languages |
| Christian woman who was killed as a martyr by the Romans | Perpetua |
| Someone who dies for their faith | Martyr |
| Roman emperor who divided the empire into 2 halves | Diocletian |
| Roman emperor who legalized Christianity | Constantine |
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