Vocab to Know
Settling something beyond any doubt.
What is being decisive?
A price to be paid before a captive is set free.
What is a ransom?
Control or rule of another.
What is domination?
One of the leaders of conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar.
Who was Marcus Junius Brutus?
Carthaginian general who led his army across the Alps and invaded Italy in the 2nd Punic War.
Who was Hannibal?
A person of noble birth.
What is a patrician?
The marks of authority (medals, badges, crowns, etc.).
What is insignia?
What is a plebeian?
Trojan prince who united his people with the Latins.
Who was Aeneas?
Roman general who left his farm to defend Rome, refused the offer of dictatorship.
Who was Cincinnatus?
Very great confusion or disorder.
What is chaos?
Middle day of the month in the Roman calendar.
What is Ides?
How the Punic War started.
What is Rome and Carthage went to war?
Julius Caesar's nephew, first emperor of Rome, Established the Julian line of emperors.
Who was Caesar Augustus (Octavius)?
This person began the Roman Senate by choosing elders to help him rule.
Who was Romulus?
Trade or buying & selling of goods.
What is commerce?
To free another from slavery.
What is manumit?
The reason the Roman senators wanted to kill Julius Caesar.
What is they were worried about him overthrowing the Roman Republic?
Brothers whom legend says established Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
Senate of patrician leaders and 2 counsels structured this place.
What was the Roman Republic?
A person who rules absolutely with no checks on power.
What is a dictator?
Government controlled by its citizens.
What is a republic?
Where Rome was established.
What is on the Tiber River?
Roman General who made himself dictator of Rome and was assassinated in 44 BC.
Who was Julius Caesar?
The decline in rulers morals caused this empire to fall.
What is the Roman Empire?