Rome Vocabulary Final for Semester II

Leaders are elected to represent people / citizens

• commerce

• republic

• forum

• legion

The public center place in Roman cities where day to day activities took place

• Circus Maximus

• Coliseum

• Senate

• Forum

Large territory in which different groups of people are ruled by one leader

• republic

• empire

• constitution

• government

200 years of peace in Rome beginning with the rule of Augustus Caesar

• Punic Wars

• Carthage

• Pax Romana

• Commerce

Group of men from the Patrician class elected to rule Rome

• Plebians

• Senate

• Tribunes

• Consuls

Roman leaders who commanded the armies and lead the government

• Plebians

• Tribunes

• Senate

• Consuls

Elected leaders of the Plebian class

• Tribunes

• Senate

• Consuls

• Emperors

War between Rome and Carthage; where Rome gained territory around Mediterranean Sea

• Civil War

• Mediterranean Wars

• Punic Wars

• Syrian Wars

Ancient people of northern and central Italy

• Legions

• Latins

• Patricians

• Consuls

Early Roman peoples who ruled over Rome first

• Tribunes

• Etruscans

• Patricians

• Carthaginians