Roman Republic

What is the type of government where citizens select their own leaders?

• veto

• republic

• consul

• dictator

What is a member of a wealthy family in the ancient Roman Republic?

• republic

• patrician

• plebeian

• dictator

What is a person in the ancient Roman Republic that has all the powers of a king?

• plebeian

• patrician

• dictator

• veto

What is the name of an ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman Republic?

• dictator

• veto

• consul

• plebeian

What is the name of an elected official in the Roman Republic?

• dictator

• consul

• plebeian

• patrician

What is the power that one branch of government has to reject bills or proposals passed by other branches?

• plebeian

• dictator

• veto

• republic

Rome is at the center of a long narrow peninsula that we now call ____________________. (HINT: It looks like a boot.)

• Germany

• The United States

• Canada

• Italy

Patricians grew wealthy because of Roman's conquests but the Plebeians grew poor. As a result, the plebeians refused to fight in the Roman __________________.

• stores

• army

• seas

• farms

The patricians thought of themselves as

• farmers

• leaders

• workers

• less than the plebeians

Plebeians believed that they had a right to be respected and treated ____________________.

• poorly

• fairly