Vocabulary
What is a Patrician
Upper class or ruling class in ancient rome
who is the lower class
Plebeians
What were the three Cities
Rome, Naples, Alba Longa
What are the three tripartite branches?
Executive, legislative and judicial
Italy is a what?
A rocky, mountainous Peninsula
What is a Plebeian
lower class citizens in ancient rome
who is the Upper class
Patricians
Name all three plains
Tuscan, Latium,Campanian
What do checks and balances mean? And what did they call One patrician and one plebeian?
A system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch. The two consuls
The river that connects Rome to the Mediterranean Sea is?
The Tiber river
What is Checks and Balances
A system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch
What did the plebeians want
A voice in government and treated as citizens
What are the three islands
Corsica,Sardinia,Sicily
What did they call it when the plebs revolt and left the city and refused to return until given rights?
Conflict of orders
The Latin first settled on the____
Latium plains
What does Republic mean
A form government in which people elect leaders and representative “ thing of the people”
what were patricians roles
landowner who were government, military, and religious leaders
What are the three Sea’s
The Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea, and the Ionian Sea
What do you call it when citizens have a responsibility to help their country?
Civic duty
Four things that the early settlers looked for when deciding to build their cities were?
Fresh water, sea access, good land, and protection
what is a Tripartite
Three branch government
Who made up 95% of the population
The plebeians
the ___ river, and the___ river
the Tiber River and the Po River
What enforce the 12 tables and gave citizens, economic, legal, property, and social rights?
The eight judges
What were the two most prized crops in Rome?
Grapes and olives