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Rome Vocab. L.2
Ancient Rome Vocab Lesson 2
Question | Answer |
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Plebeian | A common farmer, trader, or craftworker in ancient Rome. |
Patrician | A member of the nobel families who controlled all power in the early years of the Roman Republic. |
Republic | A form of goverment in which citizens representatives to speack or act for them. |
Representative | A person who is elected by citizens to speack or act for them. |
Senate | The lawmaking body and the most powerful branch of goverment in ancient Rome's republic. |
Tribune | An elected leader of ancient Rome who represented the intrests of the plebians. |
Consul | One of two elected officials in the Roman Republic who command the army and were the supreme judges. |
Twelve Tables | The earliest collection of Roman laws, drawn up by the patricians about 450 B.C., that became the foundation of the Roman law. |
Punic Wars | A series of conflict between Rome and Carthage in the 200s B.C., ending in a victory for Rome. |
Livy | Historian of the Roman Republic who wrote about the struggle between the plebeains and the patricians of Rome. |
Hannibal | General of Carthage who marched his army from Spain to Rome in the Second Punic Wars. |
Scipio | Roman general who defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama outside Carthage, North Africa. |
Forum | The city market and meeting place in the center of ancient Rome. |
Carthage | A city on the Nort coast of Africa. |
Zama | Site in Northern Africa where Roman army defeated Carthaginan army in 202 B.C. |