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scocial words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| republic | a govroment in which citizens choose representatives to run the country. |
| patricrian | a class of roman people. most of them are upper -class |
| plebeians | a class of roman people. they are the common people that made up about 90% of the roman population |
| senate | the council of elders. it was a body of 300 older men from witch the citizens elect two consuls every year. |
| consul | the top officials in the republic. |
| dictator | a person exercising absolute power especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession. |
| peninsula | an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
| legend | a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical. |
| province | an administrative division or unit of a country. |
| assassination | to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously |
| civil war | a war between political factions or regions within the same country. |
| emperor | the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire: the emperors of Rome. |
| volcano | a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals. |
| agueduct | |
| gladiator | |
| parable | |
| ex-post facto law | |
| romance language |