Vocabulary
Originally, member of the lower order of citizens who were not patrician.
What is a plebian?
What is Gaul?
The main meeting centre for oratory to occur and be heard. Main city centre in Rome and Roman towns.
What is the forum?
Member of a select branch of the Roman aristocracy that controlled power in the early republic. The status could only be passed down within the family for most of the republican period or granted by an emperor in the imperial period.
What is a patrician?
Areas that have been conquered and consolidated into the Roman empire, controlled by a governor. These were divided into 'imperial' and 'public' varieties.
What are provinces?
Main location for chariot racing.
What is the Circus Maximus?
The meeting place of the Senate in the forum.
What is the Curia?
In latin it means "treason'
What is maiestas?
The representative of the Plebs.
What is the Tribune?
The Roman Government held these to encourage political support
What are gladiator shows?
Patricians would play sports with one another here.
What is the gymnasium and palaestra?
In the republican period this title was granted first to Cicero for exceptional service to the state meaning "father of the fatherland"
What is pater patriae?
Magistrate in charge of public morality, most importantly in monitoring the citizen list and the rolls of the senate
Who is the censor?
'To spew forth'; area of the colosseum
Her temple in the forum contains virgins and an important flame.