Ancient Rome Vocab Flashcard

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A slave or captive forced to fight to the death in a public arena.

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Gladiator

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Physical feature of Rome: shallow, easy to cross, enabled sea trade.

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Tiber River

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A government run by elected leaders representing the people's views.

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Republic

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Wars between Rome and Carthage.

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Punic Wars

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Rome’s lower class who rebelled when ignored.

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Plebeians

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A method of balancing power to prevent one group from becoming too powerful.

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Checks and Balances

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Rome’s upper class citizens who ran the government.

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Patricians

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Stopping a law from being passed by one group against another.

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Veto

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Upper class Romans advising leaders.

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Roman Senate

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Group protecting plebeian rights

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Roman Assembly