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| Republic | A government in which citizens choose representatives to run the country. |
| Patrician | A member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome. A member of the upper class. |
| Plebeian | One of the common people in any country, such as in ancient Rome. |
| Senate | An assembly or council, as in ancient Rome. Only patricians could be part of the Roman Senate. |
| Consul | The annually elected chief magistrate of the Roman republic. He was given the powers of a king. |
| Dictator | One who has absolute power of rule in a country. |
| Peninsula | A piece of land almost surrounded by water and connected to a large body of land. |
| Legend | A story handed down from earlier times, which may be no more than partly true. |
| Province | A division of a country. |
| Civil War | A war between two or more groups of people within a country. |
| Assassination | The murdering of someone by secret or sudden attack. |
| Emperor | A supreme ruler of an empire. |
| Volcano | An opening in the earth, usually at the top of a cone-shaped hill or a mountain, out of which steam and other gases, stone, ashes, and melted rock may escape from time to time. |
| Aqueduct | A structure or an artificial channel used to transport water. |
| Gladiator | A person who fought another person or an animal for the entertainment of an audience in ancient Rome. |
| Historical Source | A person or thing that tells about the past. |
| Parable | A short, simple story that teaches a moral lesson, as in the teachings of Jesus. |
| Ex post facto law | The rule that no law can be used to punish a person for something done before the law was made. |
| Romance Language | Any language that grew out of Latin; Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian. |
