| A | B |
|---|
| Individuals who represented the interests of the plebeians in the Republic | Tribunes |
| Represented the interests of the patricians in the Republic | Senate |
| Land-owning noble class in the Republic | Patricians |
| Middle Class - Farmers & merchants | Plebeians |
| Landless, Jobless poor in the Republic | Proletariat |
| Made up 1/3 of Rome's population | Slaves |
| Large patrician-owned estates | Latifundia |
| 2 men who represented the Executive Branch in the Republic | Consuls |
| Appointed for 6 months and had absolute power | Dictator |
| River on which Rome was founded | Tiber |
| Rome which Caesar crossed to start a Civil War | Rubicon |
| 3 men who ruled simultaneously | Triumvirate |
| Reformers who were killed for their proposals to limit the size of Latifundias | the Gracchi Brothers |
| Reformer who gave poor men jobs in the Army | Gaius Marius |
| North African city-state who fought Rome in the Punic Wars | Carthage |
| Wars fought to see who would control the Mediterranean Sea Trade | Punic Wars |
| Carthaginian general who attempted to attack Rome by crossing the Alps | Hannibal Barca |
| Roman general who defeated Hannibal | Scipio Africanus |
| Mountains which separate the Italian Peninsula from the rest of Europe | Alps |
| Mountains which divide the Italian Peninsula - east from west | Apennine |
| Representative Democracy | Republic |
| First rulers of Rome who gave them an alphabet and the arch | Etruscans |
| People from whom the Roman Gods were borrowed | Greeks |
| Early people of Rome who gave them their language | Latins |
| Fought Marius in Rome's first Civil War | Lucius Cornelius Sulla |
| Judges in the Republic Government | Praetors |
| Rome's first law code | the Twelve Tables |
| Roman marketplace where the Twelve Tables hung | Forum |
| Strait over which the 1st Punic War was fought | Strait of Messina |
| Decrease in the value of money coupled with a rise in prices | Inflation |
