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Roman Vocab :P
Romance language ;)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Republic | ruled by the people |
| Patrician | aristocrat |
| Plebians | common people |
| Senate | controled by Rome's patricians 300 men |
| Consul | top officials of Roman republic |
| Dictator | someone who rules with abolute power |
| peninsula | area of land nearly surrounded by water |
| legend | a story handed down from earlier times that may be fake |
| province | political division of land |
| assassination | to kill suddenly or secretly |
| civil war | war between groups in one country |
| emperor | supreme ruler of an empire |
| volcano | a mountain that spews lava or magma |
| aquaduct | waterways |
| gladiator | slave or condemned criminal trained to kill |
| historical source | writing about the past |
| parable | teaching of jesus in story form |
| ex post facto law | no law can be used to punish a person from before the law was made |
| romance language | languages darived from latin, spanish french romanian italian |