Ancient Rome Vocabulary
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| republic | A form of government in which citizens elect representatives to speak or act for them.
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| patrician | a person of noble or high rank, aristocratic.
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| plebeians | The common people.
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| senate | A body of 300 older men who were elected by the citizens each year.
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| consul | either of the two chief magistrates of the ancient Roman republic.
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| 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.
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| peninsula | A piece of land surrounded on three sides by water.
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| legend | A story handed down form earlier times, maybe fake.
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| province | a division or unit of a country.
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| assassination | to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person.Treacherous murder.
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| civil war | A war between groups in the same country or city.
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| emperor | the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire
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| volcano | an opening in the earth from which lava and magma are spewed out.
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| aqueduct | an artificial channel for conducting water from a distance, usually by means of gravity. Stone Canal.
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| 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.
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| historical source | writing about the past
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| parable | a teaching of Jesus in story form.
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| romance language | the group of languages derived from Latin-Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and Romanian.
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| ex post facto law | No law can be used to punish a person for something done before the law was made.
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