Roman Vocabulary

a government in which people elect their leaders

• dictator

• republic

• civil war

• mercenary

a leader with absolute power

• civil war

• president

• dictator

• republic

an armed conflict between groups within the same country

• civil war

• republic

• senate

• huns

of or pertaining to the production, distribution, and consumption good and services and the material wealth of a country or empire

• civil war

• senate

• mercenary

• economic

a soldier for hire.

• huns

• republic

• mercenary

• senator

Most important of these nomadic groups. They moved across the grasslands of Asia into Germanic lands. They drove the Germanic peoples west and south into Roman territory

• mercenary

• republic

• Huns

• senators

someone who spoke a language the Greeks could not understand

• barbarian

• mercenary

• Hun

• Senator

results of disaster or misfortune

• senator

• republic

• mercenary

• aftermath

upper-class that were wealthy landowners who held all of the highest positions in government

• plebians

• senators

• mercenaries

• patricians

mostly common farmers. Like all male Roman citizens, they could vote, but they couldn’t hold important government positions.

• plebians

• mercenaries

• senators

• patricians