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| patrician | a member of one of the noble families of ancient Rome |
| republic | a government in which the power lies with the citizens who vote for people to represent them |
| plebian | a member of the lower class in ancient Rome |
| consul | an executive official of ancient Rome, elected for one year |
| dictator | an ancient Roman magistrate appointed temporarily to solve an emergency |
| tribune | an ancient Roman official elected by the plebians to protect their rights against the patricians |
| aqueduct | a pipe or channel to bring water from far away usually by gravity |
| messiah | liberator of the Jews expected by them to arrive in the future |
| disciple | follower of a certain teacher or religious doctrine |
| bishop | a high ranking clergyman having authority over other clergy and overseeing a church district or diocese |
| patriarch | one of five leading archbishops in ancient Rome |
| inflation | an abnormal increase in currency resulting in sharp rises in prices |
| Hannibal | soldier in the 2nd Punic War who became general of the Carthaginian army in Spain. He crossed the Alps on elephants with an army and attacked Roem successfully in 216 B.C. |
| Julius Caesar | A member of the triumverate with Crassus and Pompey, Caesar took military command in Gaul and eventually all of Italy. He became dictator for life in 45 B.C. |
| Augustus Caesar | A great patron of the arts, he ruled Rome from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D. and rebuilt Rome. |
| Nero | A Julian emperor, 54 A.D. to 68 A.D., he was cruel, vain and perhaps insane. He bankrupted the government and killed his family and many senators. |
| Jesus | A Jew from Nazareth in Judea, he traveled widely espousing a new philosophy of religion and had many disciples. |
| Constantine | A Roman general who used the cross as a battle standard and credited the victory to God and Christianity. After becoming emperor in 312 A.D., he encouraged religious freedom throughout the empire. symbol |
| Rome | Beginning sometime between 800B.C. and 700 B.C. the Latin peoples joined to form one community, in the middle of Etruria near the mouth of the Tiber River. |
| Gaul | The Roman territory north of the Alps and Pyrenees, extending North from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. |
