vocabulary
Patricians & Plebeians
Upper class citizens or ruling class in Ancient Rome 5% population
Lower class citizens in Ancient Rome 95% population
Italy’s land is
a rocky mountainous peninsula
The______were the original inhabitants of Rome
Latins
2 consuls, could ____ each other
Veto
What the plebeians wanted
voice in government, treated as citizens
Republic
a form of government in which people elect leaders and representatives “thing of the poeople”
The river that connects Rome to the Mediterranean sea
Tiber River
The form of government created in the empire was a________
Republic
Senate, assembly
300 patricians served for life, plebeians, made laws
Plebs left the city and
refused to return until given rights
Tripartite
The Latins first settled on the
Latium plains
They were________
Granted____________to people who had lived in the regions that they took out of control
Patriotic & Roman citizenship
8 judges
judicial branch, enforced the 12 tables - gave citizens economic legal, property, and social rights
Patricians panic because
no food or protection
Veto
to reject or “i forbid”
Fresh water, sea access, good land, protection
Tiber river, Ionian Sea, Latium plain, the alps
The people of Rome absorbed_______of conquered people and used them to help them advance
Allowed conquered people to keep their own
__________
achievements and language and religion
Civic duty
citizens have a responsibility to help their country
Checks and Balances
a system in which each brand of government limits the power of another branch
Grapes were used for olives were used for
Wine & oil
Constructed a network of______ throughout the empire to allow for more efficient _________
Roads and travel & trade
a system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch, 3 branch government system
Checks and balances, tripartite