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| Cincinnatus | He was a Roman Statesman who gained fame from his selfless devotion to the republic.In in times of crisis and giving up the reins of power when the crisis was over. 458 he was appointed dictator of Rome |
| Coriolanus | the name given to Gnaeus Marcius after his success in uprising against the Roman government |
| Horatius Cocles | An officer in the army of Ancient Rome who defended the Pons Sublicius from invading army of Lars Porsena |
| Lars Porsena | An Etruscan king known for his war against the city of Rome. He ruled over the city of Clusium |
| Mucius Scaevola | Roman youth who demonstrated his courage by sticking his right hand into a blazing altar fire |
| Hannibal | An officer in the Carthaginian army. He led an attack on Saguntum |
| Appius Claudius | A Roman politician. Organized the first construction of the first road " Via Appia" and Rome's first aqueduct |
| Scipio | Won the second Punic war for Rome against Carthage |
| Cato the Elder | He was a Roman senator and historian known for his conservatism to Hellenization. First to write history in Latin |
| Lake Trasimene, Trebia River, Cannae | Battles Of The Second Punic War |
| Zama | Fought in Tunisia between Carthage and Rome. Rome won |
| Fabius Maximus Cunctator | was a former Consul 5 times and known as the delayer |
| Cornelia | highly cultured mother of the late 2nd century Bc Roman reformers Tiberius and Gaius. She never remarried after her husband died. |
| Pyrrhus | King of Epirus, defeated Rome and went across Sicily and Elephants came along for the fun |
| Carthage | An Ancient city on the coast of Africa founded by Phoenicians |
| Catiline | Roman politician. An aristocraft who turned demagogue and made an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the republic |
| Spartacus | Leader in the Gladiatorial War against Rome |
| Pompey | Military and poolitical leader of late Roman republic, he formed the First Triumvirate with Crassus |
| Marcus Antonius | The Roman Politician and General. He was an ally of Julius Caesar |
| Publius Clodius | Had feud with Marcus Tullius Cicero and Titus Annius Milo, bodyguards murdered him on the Appian Way. |
| Sulla | Roman Dictator who marched an army on Rome between 88 and 89 B.C. |
| Marius | Roman general and politician, consul seven times. First Roman to illustrate the political support |
| Gracchi | Tiberius and Gaius, Roman brothers who tried to reform Rome's social and political structure to help lower classes |
| Mithridates | King of Pontus, fought against three prominent Roman generals |
| Cato the Younger | A statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a leader of the Optimates. He tried to preserve the Roman Republic against power seekers |
| fasces | a bundle of rods with a projecting ax blade carried by a lictor as a symbol of a magistrate's power |
| censor | either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public moral |
| princeps | the official term for a Roman emperor |
| Consul | was the highest elected public office in Rome |
| Praetor | given to men in Rome who were either the commander of the army or an elected magistrate |
| Aedile | Either of two Roman magistrates responsible for public buildings and public games and the supply of grain to the city |
| Dictator | Magistrate of the Roman Republic, with the full authority to take charge of the military |
| Master of Horse | An office appointed and dismissed by the Roman dictator |
| Tribune | A military tribune was an officer of the Roman army who ranked below the legate and above centurion |
| Quaestor | any of a number of officials who had charge of public revenue and expenditure |
| Pontifex Maximus | The head of the principal college priests |
| SPQR | Roman standard to the armies of Rome that battles were fought for their return |
| Optimates | upheld the oligarchy , were the dominant group in the senate |
| Populares | sought popular support against the oligarchy. |
| Patricians | any member of a group of citizen families |
| Plebeians | member of the general citizenry as opposed to the privileged |
| Equestrians | Roman Knights originally from the calvary but then from politicians and administrators |
| Publicans | A collector of taxes |
| Proletarii | citizens of Rome who were rich of use of labor work belonged to this class |
| libertus | distinguished the free from the enslaved |
