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| a type of government in which citizens who have the right to vote select their leaders; the leaders rule in the name of the people | republic
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| member of a wealthy,upper-case family in the ancient Rome Republic | patrician
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| an ordinary citizen in the anceint Roman republic | plebeian
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| one of two officials who led the ancient Roman Republic | consul
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| the latin word for "forbid" the rejection of a bill by the President or of any planned action or rule by a person in power | veto
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| a person in the acient Rome Republic appointed to rule for six months in times of emergency with all the powers of a king | dictator
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| twin brothers according to legand founded Rome in 753b.c | Romulus and Remus
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| who lived in Eturia in Italy from least 650bc to about 500bc lived before the Romans and influenced their culture | etruscans
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| Rome's first emperor wise and strong leader whose rule led to peace and wealth also known as Augustus | Octavian
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| a major river in Italy Rome is built on its banks | Tiber River
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| the capital city of Italy capital of the ancient Roman Empire | Rome
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| a boot-shaped country in southern Europe, including the islands of Sicily and Sardinia | Italy
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| an ancient city on the northern coast of Africa; now a suburb of the city of Tunis | Carthage
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| a region inhabited by the ancient Gauls; now present-day France and parts of Belgium, Germany, and Italy | Gaul
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| a unit of an empire; the provinces of the Roman Empire each had a goveror supported by an army | province
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| a structure that carries water over long distances | aqueduct
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| first Roman emperor; ruled after Julius Ceasar's death in 44b.c until his own death | Augustus Caesar
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| emperor of rome from, one of Rome's greatest emperors worked to unify the empire | Hadrian
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| a country in Mediterranean europe site of a great ancient civilization | Greece
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| a large amphithearte built in Rome around site of contests and combats between people and animals | Colosseum
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| an arena in ancient Rome also the show held there | circus
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| Roman poet wrote poems about the early roman empire | Martial
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| writer philosopher and statesman of ancient rome | Seneca
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| a savior in Judaism and Christianity | messiah
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| a follower of a person or belief | disciple
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| in the christian Bible the books of Matthew, Mark , Luke , and John which are the first four books of the New Testament | Gospel
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| a letter in the christian Bible letters written by disciples like Paul to Christian groups | epistle
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| a person who chooses to die for a cuse he or she believes in | martyr
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| founder of Christianity believed by Christians to be the Messiah executed by the Roman government followers said he spoke to them after the death and rose bodily to heaven | Jesus
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| disciple of Jesus spent his later life spreading Jesus teachings his writings helped turn Christianity into an organized religion | Paul
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| Roman emperor from known for his mistreatment of Christians | Nero
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| a present day of Israel | Judea
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| a foreign soldier who serves in an army only for pay | mercenary
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| an economic situation in which there is more money of less value | inflation
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| emperor of Rome from encouraged the spread of Christianity | constantine
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| emperor of Rome from reorganized the Roman government | diocletian
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| the ancient capital of Byzantium now Istanbul Turkey | Constantinople
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| Roman political and military leader became dictator for life in 44 b.c greatly improved the roman government was murdered by Roman senators because of his great power | Julius Ceaser
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| is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, about 80 kilometres long, running from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region, between the towns of Rimini and Cesena. | Rubicon River
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| was the Latin term for a geographical area of land on the east bank of the Rhine (inner Germania), which included regions of Sarmatia | Germania
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| the greatest and best-known Roman orator and the author of many famous speeches; also famous as a philosopher and politician | Cicero
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| Latin (lingua latīna, IPA: [laˈtiːna]) is an Italic language[3] originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. | Latin
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| In statistics and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who have shared a particular time together during a particular time span[1] (e.g., people born in Europe between 1918 and 1939; | cohort
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| was the most notable leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic. | Spartacus
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| was an ancient Greek[2][3] queen and the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. | Cleopatra
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| The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a cloth of perhaps twenty feet (6 metres) in length which was wrapped around the body | toga
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| were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages.[1] | Celts
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| a sovereign state in north western Europe | Britain
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| Helvetia is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the "Helvetic Confederation". | Helvetian
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| was a small silver coin first minted in 211 BC | denarii
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| were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. | Visigoths
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| were a branch of the Goths (the other branch being the Visigoths), an East Germanic tribe that played a major role in political events of the last decades of the Roman Empire. | Ostrogoths
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| The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century, perhaps best known for their sack of Rome in 455. | Vandals
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| is a term that can apply both as a translation of legio ("conscription" or "army") to the entire Roman army and also, more narrowly (and more commonly), to the heavy infantry that was the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army | Roman Legion
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| was a force of bodyguards used by Roman Emperors | Praetorian Guard
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| in Greek sources, or, in Byzantine times, kentarch (κένταρχος) was a professional officer of the Roman army after the Marian reforms of 107 BC | Centurion
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| is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, about 80 kilometres long, running from the Apennine Mountains | "Crossing the Rubicon"
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| to murder for political reasons | assassinate
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| is a Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of his murder by stabbing. | "Et tu Brute?"
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| known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic. | Scipio Africanus
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| was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. | Pax Romana
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| was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. | Appian way
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| s a building in Rome, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, | pantheon
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| is a feature of Classical architecture since the 16th century | oculus
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| in ancient Rome, a person who fought to the death in an arena for the entertainment of the public; usually a slave | gladiators
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| is an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome. | Circus Maximus
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| is a diversionary water channel, often used in ancient Italy | cuniculus
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| is a small open rectangle surrounded by the ruins of ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. | Roman Forum
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| is the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city. | Palatine Hills
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| are a bundle of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power | fasces
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| s an initialism from a Latin phrase, S enatus P opulus q ue R omanus ("The Senate and People of Rome "), referring to the ... | S.P.Q.R
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| in Rome, Italy were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. | Baths of Caracalla
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| was established by the Romans around AD 43. It soon became the capital of Roman Britain and served as a major imperial commercial centre until its abandonment during the 5th century. | Londinium
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| is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. | Tyrrhenian Sea
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| is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. | Adriatic Sea
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| are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, | Alps
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| are a mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending c. 1,200 km (750 mi) along the length of peninsular Italy. | Apennine Mountains
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| is a monotheistic religion[1] based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings | Christianity
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| was a title shared by elected officials in the Roman Republic | tribune
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| was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law | Laws of the Twelve Tablets
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| were political institutions in the ancient Roman Republic. | Roman assembly
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| was a political institution in ancient Rome. | Roman Senate
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| a ruler of widespread lands | emperor
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| is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompeii | Pompeii City
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| was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows AD 79, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano, in the Italian region of Campania in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. | Herculaneum
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| was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus | Marcus Aurelius
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| as Roman Emperor from 98 to 117. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica | Trajan
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| was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Tiberius was by birth a Claudian, son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. | Tiberius
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| Roman emperor believed to be insane for much of his rule; was responsible for many disturbances during his reign | Caligula
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| were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC | Punic Wars
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| was a Carthaginian military commander and tactician who is popularly credited as one of the most talented commanders in history. | Hannibal
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| was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. | Vercengetorix
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| also known as Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. | Attila the Hun
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| was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic | Pompey
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| was a Roman general and politician who commanded the left wing of Sulla's army at the Battle of the Colline Gate, | Crassus
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| was the roman word for sword, and is used to represent the primary sword of Ancient Rome soldiers | gladius
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| is a small constellation introduced in the seventeenth century | scutum
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| plural ballistae, was an ancient missile weapon which launched a large projectile at a distant target. | Ballista
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| is a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals, each a triumvir (pl. triumviri | Triumvirate
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| was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26–36.[1][2][3] He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the Crucifixion of Jesus. | Pontius Pilate
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| underground cemetery of many tunnels and passageways | Catacombs
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| emperor of Rome from a.d 284 to 305 reorganized the roman government | Diocletian
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| of ancient Rome were created by Augustus to counterbalance the enormous power of the Praetorian Guard in the city of Rome and serve as a police force. They were led by the urban prefect. | cohort
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| was a javelin commonly used by the Roman army in ancient times. | Pilum
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| was a political institution in ancient Rome | Roman Senate
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| better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian | Pliny
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| was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works—the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him. | virgil
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| was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people | Livy
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| was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. | Seneca
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| ) is a commune situated east of Marseille in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southern France. | Cassis
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| was a type of segmented armour almost exclusively used in the Roman Empire, but the Latin name was first used in the 16th century (the ancient form is unknown, although it is possible that the Romans referred to the armour as "lorica laminata") | Lorica Segmentata
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| is a device used to throw or hurl a projectile a great distance without the aid of explosive devices—particularly various types of ancient and medieval siege engines. | Catapult
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| was the principal Roman surveying instrument. It comprised a vertical staff with horizontal cross pieces mounted at right-angles on a bracket. | Groma
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| is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile. | Miliarium
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| is the name of 15 March in the Roman calendar, probably referring to the day of the full moon | "Beware the Ides of March"
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