Unit 1 Vocabulary Set: Rome: From Republic to Empire

grandnephew of Julius Caesar who became the first emperor of Roman Empire

• Sulla

• Marius

• Augustus Caesar/Octavian

leader who weakened the Senate and became dictator, stabbed to death by his political enemies

• Julius Caesar

• Augustus Caesar

• Marius

general who recruited landless poor into army by promising land, these soldiers swore loyalty to general not the Republic

• Sulla

• Augustus Caesar/Octavian

• Marius

Wealthy landowners who could hold elected positions in the Roman Senate

• Roman Senate

• Plebeians/Plebes

• Patricians

Roman citizens like merchants and farmers who could vote but could not hold elected office

• Plebeians/Plebes

• Roman Senate

• Patricians

series of wars between Rome and the city-state of Carthage- Rome won and destroyed Carthage

• Macedonian Wars

• Gallic Wars

• Punic Wars

Elected government of the Roman Republic until it became an empire

• Triumvirate

• Plebeians/Plebes

• Roman Senate

general who seized Republic by taking advantage of military recruiting system

• Sulla

• Marius

• Augustus Caesar/Octavian

joint government by 3 equally powerful rulers (i.e. Crassus, Pompey, and Julius Caesar)

• Patricians

• Roman Senate

• Triumvirate

Rome’s first set of laws which influence modern laws of today

• The Twelve Tables

• Triumvirate

• Roman Senate