The Roman Republic

Today in the U.S. we have one president and one vice president, what did the Romans call their two main leaders?

• Consuls

• Governors

• Senators

• Presidents

The “new” Roman form of government in which citizens vote for their leaders is called a _______________.

• Dictatorship

• Republic

• Rule by a King

• Aristocracy

Wealthy upper class Roman citizens that made up the minority of the Roman population were called _______________.

• Vetoes

• Plebeians

• Patricians

• Aristocrats

An “ordinary” citizen of Rome that made up the lower class, which made up the majority of the population of Rome, were called _______________.

• Plebeians

• Etruscans

• Patricians

• "The Rioters"

_______________ ruled ancient Rome for six months during emergencies.

• Consuls

• Dictators

• Etruscans

• Senators

What group of people brought back from Roman conquest took the jobs of the Plebeians?

• Helots

• Slaves

• Estrucans

• Latins

Roman soldiers trained, fought in war, and were also expected to ____________________ .

• mine silver

• grow crops

• construct roads and bridges

• tutor children

All Roman ____________________ were given a Roman governor and an army.

• states

• provinces

• territories

• regions

The ____________________ was created by the patricians to provide equal rights to the plebeians.

• The Law of the Twelve Tables

• The Law of the Twenty Tables

• The Law of the Roman Tables

• The Law of the Roman Plebeians

The early Romans never wanted to be ruled by a ____________________ after being under the Estruscan's rule.

• president

• pharaoh

• king

• priest