Question | Answer |
republic | A form of government in which citizens elect representatives to speak or act for them. |
patrician | a person of noble or high rank, aristocratic. |
plebeians | The common people. |
senate | A body of 300 older men who were elected by the citizens each year. |
consul | either of the two chief magistrates of the ancient Roman republic. |
dictator | a person with absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.Usually in times of emergency. |
peninsula | A piece of land surrounded on three sides by water. |
legend | A story handed down form earlier times, maybe fake. |
province | a division or unit of a country. |
assassination | to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person.Treacherous murder. |
civil war | A war between groups in the same country or city. |
emperor | the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire |
volcano | an opening in the earth from which lava and magma are spewed out. |
aqueduct | an artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity. Stone Canal. |
gladiator | a slave or captive, who was armed with a sword or other weapon and forced to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal, for the entertainment of the spectators. |
historical source | writing about the past |
parable | a teaching of Jesus in story form. |
romance language | the group of languages derived from Latin-Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Romanian. |
ex post facto law | No law can be used to punish a person for something done before the law was made. |