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100
A form of government with elected leaders.
What is a republic?
100
One of the poor commoners in the Roman Republic, who had no say in government.
What is a plebeian?
100
Where the laws of Rome were written down.
What is the Twelve Tables?
100
The other thing Romans borrowed from the Greeks besides art, architecture, and religion.
What is writing?
100
The plebeians were unhappy when the Republic was first set up because they didn't have any of this.
What is power in the government?
200
To refuse to approve proposals of government made by the Senate.
What is a veto?
200
One of the wealthy landowners in the Roman Republic, who had all the power.
What is a patrician?
200
The famous Roman statesman who said that "the people's good is the highest law".
Who is Cicero?
200
The people who made up the majority of Roman society.
Who were the plebeians?
200
Why the plebeians wanted the laws of Rome to be written down.
What is so that the laws could not be changes?
300
A basic set of laws.
What is a constitution?
300
A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Roman Republic.
What is the Senate?
300
The two engineering techniques that Romans learned from the Etruscans.
What are arches and the cuniculus?
300
A form of government with elected leaders.
What is a republic?
300
A person who fights to the death for the entertainment of others.
What is a gladiator?
400
One of two chief leaders in the Roman republic; each controlled half of the army.
What is a consul?
400
The struggle between the plebeians and patricians in the Roman Republic.
What is the Conflict of the Orders?
400
Romans used these two things to build bigger buildings than the Greeks.
What are arches and concrete?
400
In the Roman Republic, to be a patrician, you had to be this.
What is a rich landowner?
400
The type of creature that raised the boy who killed his twin brother and founded the city of Rome.
What is a wolf?
500
An official of the Roman Republic elected by plebians to protect their rights.
What is a tribune?
500
The lawmaking body elected by plebeians to make laws for plebeians.
What is the Council of Plebs?
500
The style of Roman art that is heavily influenced by the Greeks.
What is "Greco-Roman" art?
500
What the Romans did after they adopted the Greek religion.
What is changed the names of the Greek gods to Roman names?
500
The name of the boy who killed his twin brother and founded the city of ROME.
Who is Romulus?