| A | B |
|---|
| patricians | large landowners and freemen |
| plebeians | common people |
| republic | representatives elected by citizens |
| Latin League | defensive alliance |
| senate | made up of 300 patricians |
| Gauls | destroyed Roman army; left after receiving ransom in gold |
| Pyrrhus | called on by Greeks to stop Roman expansion |
| costly victory | pyrrhic victory |
| war elephants | used by Pyrrhus in battle |
| military | wise leadership and geography aided its success |
| tribunes | they governed plebeians' assembly |
| veto | "I forbid " was cry of tribunes |
| laws | written down for all to see |
| Twelve Tables | written laws-Law of the ... |
| central location | advantage-Rome located here on Italian peninsula |
| farmers | what most early Roman workers were |
| jealousy | why Latin League members revolted against Rome |
| consuls | new republic was ruled by 2 of them |
| Etruscans | drained marshes and encouraged trade |
| arches | Etruscans used these in buildings |
| city-states | Etruscans brought 1st of these to Italy |
| Tarquin the Proud | tyrant deposed by Senate in 509 B.C. |
