Ancient Greece
It's the Greek word for city-state
What is a polis?
Another word for meeting
What is an assembly?
They were the wealthy members of the senate
Who are the patricians?
A person who speaks and governs for others
Who is a representative?
Early Roman Republic depended on them
Who were its soldiers?
A person who rules by force and not by law
What is a tyrant?
The only people who had the right to vote
Who are Athenian men?
What Rome is located on
What is the Tiber River?
A Roman leader who served a one-year term in the government
Who is a consul?
They feared men like Gracchus and his brother, Tiberius
Who were the patrician senators?
A hill on which the people in a Greek city built their main temple
What is an acropolis?
What Athenian courts used to decide outcomes
What are juries
The plain where a group of Latins lived
What is Latium?
They were not wealthy, did the hard work, and could be sold for not paying their debts
Who are plebeians?
He was a military general who promised a share of the money from conquering other lands
Who was Marius?
The city-state that created democracy
What is Athens?
Athenians voting on every law
What is direct democracy?
The group of people who conquered Rome and the plains of Latium
Who are the Etruscans?
In 494 B.C. plebeians were given the right to elect two of these
Who are tribunes?
Crassus, Pompey the Great, and Julius Caesar made up this
What is the First triumvirate?
A leader who helped create democracy
Who is Solon
Wrote a book called The Republic and thought only the wisest people should rule
Who is Plato
Etruscan kings appointed men to this governing body to help them rule
What is the senate?
These were one of the first places that laws were written down
What is the Law of the Twelve Tables?
They divided the Republic into 3 areas to be governed
Who are Mark Anthony, Octavian, and Marcus Lepidus