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Rome
World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Thing of the people", government run by elected officials, no monarch. | Republic. |
| Ruling body of elected officials in Rome. | Senate. |
| Aristocrats, upper-class in Rome. | Patricians. |
| Commoners, lower class in Rome. | Plebeians. |
| Two executives chosen by the Roman state. | Consuls. |
| Representatives of the Plebeians in Roman government. | Tribunes. |
| Successful military general, conquered Gaul (France), became dictator. | Julius Caesar. |
| Ruler of three: Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey. | Triumvirate. |
| Octavian (Caesar's nephew), name meant "revered one", first emperor of Rome. | Caesar Augustus. |
| Laws of the Roman republic. | Law of Twelve Tables. |
| Two hundred years of Roman peace. | Pax Romana. |
| Wars of conquest fighting between Rome and Carthage of Africa. | Punic Wars. |
| Roman poet, wrote the "Aeneid". | Virgil. |
| Roman historian. | Livy. |
| Roman emperor who divided the empire into two. | Diocletian. |
| Roman emperor who established Constantinople and legalized Christianity. | Constantine. |