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Roman vocab t style
sheer vocabness
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| consul | top official in republic |
| republic | ruled by people |
| patrician | aristocrat |
| plebeians | common people |
| senate | body of 300 men |
| dictator | someone who rules w/ absolute power choosen by senate |
| peninsula | area of land surrounded on 3 sides by water |
| legend | a old story handed down generation to generation |
| province | political division of land |
| assassination | to kill suddenly or secretly |
| civil war | war between groups in 1 country |
| emperor | supreme ruler of an empire |
| volcano | mountain that spews lava |
| aqueduct | waterways |
| gladiator | roman athlete that fought to death ussually a slave |
| historical source | writing about the past |
| parable | teaching of jesus in story form |
| ex postfacto law | no law can be used to punish a person for something that was done before law was made |
| romance language | spanish latin french romanian language |