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Ancient Rome
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| Term | Definition | |
|---|---|---|
| Forum | a public meeting place | |
| senate | Roman officials appointed by the bodies | |
| consuls | most powerful people in Rome | |
| plebeians | common people | |
| veto | to reject actions | |
| checks | a system that balances government | |
| dictatorship | a ruler who has almost or absolute power | |
| empire | land with territories and people under 1 rule | |
| emperor | name of the ruler | |
| latin | Romans language | |
| adueduct | carries water | |
| civil law | a league system based of a code of laws | |
| pax romana | roman time of peace | |
| romans were | practical | |
| power was shared among | people | |
| divied into blank branches | 3 | |
| blank people shared power | 2+ | |
| the law applied to | everyone | |
| people could one and other | veto | |
| people were in office for one | year | |
| men ruled the | families | |
| women had more | rights | |
| oldest man owend all | property | |
| men had unlimited | power | |
| could kill | kids | |
| could sell | kids | |
| women could own | property | |
| women could have | social life's | |
| women couldn't | vote | |
| most important rule | have kids | |
| rich earned money from | farming | |
| grew from what slaves | did | |
| common people lived in | appartments | |
| slaves were treated | bad | |
| divide by | gender and class | |
| men ruled | families | |
| oldest man called | patresfamilias | |
| men had unlimited power over | families | |
| most rich lived in | villas | |
| poor worked in | stores and taverns | |
| rivers were to fast for | ships to enter | |
| who fought back for slaves | Spartacus | |
| Romans worshiped | hundreds of gods | |
| the mountain range Going down the middle is the | Apennines | |
| one of the rivers it the | po river | |
| one of the rivers is the | Tiber river | |
| one of the islands are | Sicily | |
| in 753-509bc Rome was under the rule of different | kings | |
| Rome's constitution | a system of rules Witch a government is organized | |
| law applied to | everyone | |
| a ruler with absolute power | dictatorship | |
| a government where people elect there leaders | republic | |
| nobles | patricians | |
| most powerful | senate | |
| common people | pelbs | |
| 2 most powerful magistrates | consuls | |
| who could vote | free adult male citizens | |
| the roman forum was | a gathering place | |
| roman peace | pax Romana | |
| role of women | have kids | |
| how did the rich earn money | farming | |
| Romes first emperor | Julius creaser | |
| how many branches of government | 3 | |
| government more or less stable over time | more stable | |
| wars before 200 ad | 11 | |
| summarize Romulus and Remus' life | he killed him | |
| what type of law | unwritten | |
| who helped shape roman culture | Etruscans | |
| who else haze an unwritten law | Greece | |
| first written law code | Mesopotamia | |
| who are we learning about | greece | |
| latins enter the region | 1000bc | |
| republic was made | 5000bc | |
| the first writtin code of laws | 450bc | |
| ens of the Roman republic | 45bc | |
| Punic wars | 264-164 | |
| Julius caeser died | 44bc | |
| Pompeii destroyed | 79ad | |
| Roman at its peak | 117ad | |
| Christianity recognized | 313ad | |
| Roman empire collapsed | 430ad | |
| land was mostly | flat | |
| forum | public meeting place | |
| seneate | Roman official | |
| what type of law | unwrittin | |
| women could own | property | |
| how many branches of government | 3 | |
| common people lived in | appartments | |
| rich lived in | villas | |
| consuls | most powerful people | |
| plebs | common people | |
| free male citizens could | vote | |
| Roman republic | 509bc | |
| most powerful | senate | |
| Rome's nobles | patricians | |
| common people | plebs | |
| consuls | most powerful | |
| Roman forum | public meeting place | |
| peace | pax romana | |
| veto | to reject | |
| Tiberius tried to give | land to the poor | |
| first emporor | Julius ceaser | |
| rich earned money by | farming | |
| poor eneaned by | working at taverns | |
| location help growth | yes | |
| what other had a unwrittin law | greece | |
| first writtin law | mesopotamia | |
| helped shape Roman culture | Etruscans | |
| what langeage did they speak | latin |