Vacabulary
This type of government has elected leaders who represent the people.
What is a republic?
What is Europe?
The group that ruled Rome before the republic.
Who are the Etruscans?
The group of 300 patricians who advised leaders.
What is the Senate?
The Struggle between patricians and plebeians.
What is the Conflict of the Orders?
This group of wealthy landowners held most of the power in early Rome.
Who are the patricians?
This peninsula is the home to Rome.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
The year the Romans overthrew the Etruscans.
What is 509 B.C.E.?
The two leaders who shared command of the army.
Who are consuls?
What plebeians did in 494 BCE to protest.
What is the left Rome (march)?
This group made up about 95% of Rome's population.
Who are the plebeians?
This Mountain range runs along the northern border of Italy.
What are the Alps?
The Roman leader who helped overthrow the Etruscan king.
Who is Lucius Junius Brutus?
Officials elected by plebeians to represent them.
Who are tribunes?
Why plebeians were angry about military service.
What is they had to fight but had no power?
This word means to reject or overrule a law.
What is veto?
This sea surrounds much of Italy and was important for trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Greek place where the oracle made a prediction.
What is Delphi?
The assembly that made laws for plebeians.
What is the Council of Plebs?
Why patricians were forced to compromise.
What is they need the plebeians for work and defense?
These were the first written laws of Rome.
What are the Twelve Tables?
This river runs through the city of Rome.
What is the Tiber River?
What Brustus did to "fulfill" the oracle's prophecy.
What is kissed the Earth?
The group that originally controlled all government power.
Who are the patricians?
The first right the plebeians gained after their protest.
What is electing tribunes?