Rome Flashcards
Republic
Form of government I which people choose officials
Patricians
Members of landholding upper class men
Consuls
Nominated people who supervised gov. and command the armies
Dictator
Ruler that has complete control over gov.
Plebeians
People who made up most of pop, farmers, merchants, etc
Tribunes
People who could help block veto for plebeians
Veto
Laws harmful to plebeians
Imperialism
Establishing control over foreign lands and people t
Legion
Military unit that had about 5,000 men
Latifundia
Huge wealthy estates
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Brothers who tried to help poor farmers around 133 BC
Julius caesar
58 BC did 9 years of fighting and concord Gaul, started a civil war and became king
Augustus (exalted one)
(Much like a king) Ordered Census, and made a gov. That functioned for 200 years
96 ad to 180 ad, empire benighted from many good rulers. Who was one, and what did he do???
Hadrian, and he coded roman law and had his men build a wall against britain
Virgil
Perot who wrote Aeneid, trying to show how Rome’s past was as great as Greece’s
Satirize
The word for how poets would make fun of Rome
A picture made of little chips of colored stone or glass
Mosaic