ancient romeeee!!!!!! Flashcards
a series of conflicts fought between Rome and Carthage between 264 and 146 BC.
Punic Wars
Patrician wealthy landowners, members of noble families
Patrician
a state in which power is held by the people and their elected representatives
Republic
farmers, traders, artisans, served in the military etc. Plebeians worked for the patricians.
Plebeian poor/working class:
fertile soil along west coast of Italy and the Tiber River runs through.
Latium Plain
200 years of peace
Pax Romana(Roman peace)=
Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire,
Julius Caesar
Emperor of Rome who divided the empire in two
Diocletian
Emperor of the Roman Empire - united the empire after Diocletian
Constantine