| A | B |
|---|
| Republic | people vote for representatives who make decisions |
| senate | powerful 300 man body who makes laws |
| Patricians | wealthy land owners |
| Plebeians | common people |
| Tribunes | Commoners voted into office |
| Twelve Tables | Roman Law code |
| Latifundia | large farms in Rome |
| slaves | captured prisoners in war |
| Jupiter | Roman king of gods |
| Venus | Roman goddess of love |
| Paul of Tarsus | Spread Christianity |
| New Testament | book of Jesus's teachings |
| Etruscans | ancestors on Italian Peninsula |
| Latin | Spoken by the Romans |
| Carthage | trade and military rivals of Rome |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general |
| Scipio | defeated Hannibal |
| Punic Wars | fought for control of the Mediterannean |
| Julius Caesar | general turned dicator |
| Octavian Augustus Caesar | first emperor |
