| A | B |
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| This latin word means a government that is the peoples affair | Republic |
| Upper class landowners | Patrician |
| Where the common people who made up 90% of the roman population | Plebians |
| Another name for the council of elders in rome | senate |
| one of the top officials in the republic | Consul |
| A single leader chosen by the senate in times of emergency | dictator |
| a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides | Peninsula |
| A story handed down from earlier times that may only be partially true | Legend |
| A roman poet who wrote about the ancestors of the Romans in the Aeneid | Virgil |
| a division of a country | Province |
| A talented strong roman leader who had ambitious goals | Julius Caesar. |
| As a result of this rome conquered carthage and took control of its lands along the mediterranean | Punic Wars |
| A war between two groups within the same city or country | Civil war |
| A murder by a secret or sudden attack | Assassination |
| A roman title meaning commander | emperor |
| Grandnephew of caesar. he was also Caesar's adopted son and heir | octavian |
| He built a new capital in the eastern part of the empire which had the largest population | Emperor Constantine |
| An opening in the earth from which melted rock stone and ashes are thrown out. | volcano |
| A stone canal which brought water to a city from a stream located somewhere outside the city | Aquedect |
| People who did much of the work in Rome | Slaves |
| Where usually slaves or condemned criminals who were trained to fight with swords and other weapons | Gladiators |
| Writings that provide information about the past | Historical Sources |
| The teaching of Jesus in story form | Parable |
| Was one of the few religions that was against the law in the Roman empire | Chrisianity |
| Spoke to his followers about the kingdom of heaven some people took this to mean that he planned to overthrow the Romans and set up a government | Jesus |
| Latin words that mean that no law can be used to punish a person for something done before the law was made | Ex Post Facto Law |
| The Romans borrowed the idea from the Italians who in turn had borrowed it from the Greeks who had borrowed if from the Phoenicians. | roman alphabet |
| Languages developed from the roman tongue | Romance Languages |
| The Romans were master | Builders in Concrete including the Colosseum |
