| A | B |
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| Consuls | Two elected leaders from the senate, who oversee the Republic, and run the army. |
| Veto | the power to cancel another person's decisions. The power to say NO. |
| Gladiator | a man who fights, and often dies, for the entertainment of others. |
| Legionnaires | soldiers in the Roman Army, known for their discipline, tactics, and training. |
| Triumvirate | a three person group of leaders. |
| Dictator | one ruler who has absolute power. |
| Tribunes | officials who protected the Plebeian's rights. |
| Plebeians | lower class citizens |
| Senate | made up of 300 wealthy elderly males. |
| Republic | was created after the Romans over threw the Kings. It also means public thing. |
| latifundias | wealthy romans combine farms creating larger lands |
| corvus | added to a Carthaginian ship for Roman advantages. |
| Rome and Carthage | fought in a long series of wars called the Punic wars |
| General Cornelius Sullua | marched his army on the city of Rome. |
| General Gaius Marius | began paying his soldiers to join the army. |
| Farmers moved to city bc | their farms were destroyed by the invasion of Hannibal and his troops. |
| Tiberius Gracchus | limit land ownership-gave public lands to the poor-ran for a second term-killed with his followers by Senate |
| Gaius Gracchus | Had government take over sale of wheat and sell it to the poor below market price. Eventually, 1/3 Romans were receiving wheat for free. Senate felt threatened and in 121 B.C. had him killed. |
