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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
| patricians | an aristocrat or nobleman |
| plebeians | a member of the lower social classes. |
| veto | a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body. |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business. |
| constitution | a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed. |
| senate | the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress, most US states, France, and other countries. |
| consuls | an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government's citizens and interests there. |
| dictator | a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force. |
| gracchi | The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Romans who both served as tribunes of the plebs between 133 and 121 BC. |
| gaius marius | Gaius Marius was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his important reforms of Roman armies. |
| julius caesar | was a Roman statesman and military general who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. |
| triumvirate | A triumvirate is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs. |
| agustus | Augustus was a Roman statesman and military leader who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. |
| pax romana | the peace which existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. |
| villa | a large country house of Roman times, having an estate and consisting of farm and residential buildings arranged around a courtyard. |
| circuses | A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, |
| paterfamilias | The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias, was the head of a Roman family. |
| augurs | An augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world. H |
| galan | Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. |
| ptolemy | Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. |
| aqueducts | In a restricted sense, aqueducts are structures used to conduct a water stream across a hollow or valley. In modern engineering, however, aqueduct refers to a system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, |
| latin | Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. |
| civil law | Civil law is a branch of the law. I |
| christianity | the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices. |
| messiah | the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. |
| jesus of nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity |
| disciples | a personal follower of Jesus during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles. |
| apostles | In Christian theology and ecclesiology, apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles, were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. |
| martyrs | a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. |
| paul | a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle. |
| eucharist | the Christian ceremony commemorating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed. |
| bishop | a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders. |
| popes | the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| inflation | the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated. |
| diocletian | Diocletian, was a Roman emperor from 284 to 305. Born to a family of low status in Dalmatia, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the military to become a cavalry commander of the Emperor Carus's army. |
| attila | Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453. |
| lucius cornelius sulla | Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman and one of the canonical figures of Roman history. |
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