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W. H. Vocab
100
A ruler with almost absolute power, elected during time of war.
What is a dictator?
100
These are elected officials who fulfill specific duties for the city.
What are magistrates?
100
This is a group of up to 6,000 soldiers.
What is a legion?
100
This is when you can reject something or prohibit it.
What is a veto?
100
This is a way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irragation?
200
This twin killed his brother and named Rome after himself.
Who is Romolus?
200
These people are elected to run the city and lead the army. They are the most powerful magistrates.
What are consuls?
200
These wars were a series of wars between Rome and Carthage.
What are the Punic Wars?
200
The legendary Trojan founder of Rome.
Who is Aeneas?
200
The type of living where people had to move around a lot to find food and shelter.
What is nomadic?
300
One difference between this group is they are wealthy and this group is common people.
What is the plebeians and the patricians?
300
What are their three branches of government?
What is Magistrates, Roman Senate, and Assemblies & Tribunes.
300
He is a general who tried to solve unemployment by letting poor people join the army.
Who is Gaius Marius?
300
Land with different territories and people under a single rule.
What is a empire?
300
This is a long poem that tells the stories of a hero.
What is an epic?
400
This is why the geography helped the rise of Rome.
What is travelling easily by sea and growing crops because of warm weather?
400
They use this system to make sure no one is abusing power and to even out the power.
What is checks and balances?
400
This man was a slave who led an uprising of slaves.
Who is Spartacus?
400
He sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
This type of age is marked by great achievements.
What is a classical age?
500
The reason people liked this dictator was because he did not take advantage of his power!
Who is Cincinnatus?
500
This is most similar to a downtown area of a city. Shopping, government buildings, and entertainment happen here.
What is the Roman Forum?
500
This place was in North Africa.
What is Carthage?
500
The first United States president.
Who is George Washington?
500
This is a political system in which people elect leaders to govern themselves.
What is a republic?