Age of Empires II: Rome Flashcards
patricians
roman upper class
plebeians
roman lower class
augustus
title given by the senate to augustus the first roman emperor
princeps
title taken by augustus the first roman emperor
pax romana
roman peace
constitutio antoniniana
law given by emperor Caracalla granting Roman citizenship to all males in the empire
Hannibal
king of Carthage
Punic Wars
long series of wars between Rome and Carthage for supremacy in the western mediterranean
Battle of Zama
decisive victory of the romans in the punic war
princeps
first citizen
imperator
victorious in battle
Pax Romana
Roman Peace
Pompeii
city in Italy buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD
Septimius Severus
first emperor of the severan dynasty
tetrarchy
political system (rulership of four) introduced by emperor Diocletian