| A | B |
|---|
| These people were commander in chief and presided over the senate | consuls |
| these people were one below the consuls and served for 18 months | censors |
| these people were mayors and city police and served for 1 year terms and were in hte exec. branch | aediles |
| these were the city officials( a lot of them) | quaestors |
| This was made of 300 men were the M.I.P in the leg. branch, determined foreign affairs, were chief advisors, directed all military affairs, policy makers, served for life | senate |
| these people passes laws, conducted trials, dominated by pleibeians, elected tribunes, elected quaestors | Assembly of Tribes |
| ratified peace treaties, elected praestors, consuls and censors, , declared war, reps. all citizens of Italy | Assembly of Centuries |
| represented officials, had veto power over senate and officials | tribunes |
| the only members of the judicial branch, 2 year terms, conducted trials, judges | praetor |
| emp: a good administrator; improved provincial gov. and the emp.'s tax system; later years marked by wholesale treason trials and executions | Tiberius |
| Emp.: mentally disturbed; assassinated after short, brutal reign | Caligula |
| Emp.: he was considered to be slow-witted as a child but became an able, intelligent emperor; added Britannia to empire; set up gov. dept.s for accounts, correspondance, and justice | Claudius |
| Emp.: bc emp. @ 16, devoted to arts; good administrator yet increasingly vicious in his use of power; resp. for murders (mom & 1st wife) rebuilt Rome after fires in a.d 64; began persecution of Christians | Nero |
| Name the Army Emperors: (succession crisis; 3 emp.s chosen by various factions in armies | Galba, Otho, Vitellus |
| In Flavian Dynasty: emp.: ended civ. war of a.d 69; restored empires finances and army; RESPONSIBLE FOR JEWISH DIASPORA | Vespasian |
| Emp.: In flavian dynasty, opened colliseum; reign marked by eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii | Titus |
| Emp.: flavian dynasty; ruled dictatatorially but efficiently; later feared treason everywhere and executed many; was assassinated | Domitian |
| Emp.: senator; appointed emp. by senate; began custom of adopting heir | Nerva |
| Emp.: spanish-born (1st emp. from provinces) conquered Dacia; empire reached its greatest extent in his rule | Trajan |
| Emp.: builds borders; consolidates earlier conquests rather than adding new lands; reorganized buerocracy and set up postal service; traveled throughout empire | Hadrian |
| Emp.: wanted peace, tranquility and happiness; reign marked by public works and exoanded welfare for education and child; army declined | Antonious Pius |
| Emp.: wrote Meditations; Pax Romana ends w/ his death; during his reign, plague kills 1/3 of pop. | Marcus Aurelius |
| name the Roman Languages | english, spanish, french, portuguese, roman (latin) |
| describe Cicero (lit,) | father of LAtin prose; defends the Republic |
| describe Virgil(lit.) | "Aenied" epic poem to promote patriotism |
| describe Horace(lit.) | "odes" short poems |
| describe Senaca(lit.) | essay on morals; Nero's teacher |
| describe Livy (history) | founding- Augustus |
| describe Plutarch (history) | compared greeks and romans; wrote book Parallel Lives |
| describe Tacitus (history) | "Germanica" (history of Barbarian Tribes) |
| describe Galen (science) | medical knowledge |
| describe Ptolemy (science) | astronomer; "earth is the center of the universe" taught until the Ren. |
