Ancient Rome Vocabulary

channels that carried fresh water from the mountains to the cities

• rhetoric

• aqueducts

• concrete

• magistrate

the art of public speaking

• vault

• forum

• rhetoric

• Latins

a series of arches used in Roman architecture

• vault

• plebians

• census

• colosseum

person of Rome with certain rights, including the right to vote

• tripartite

• Latins

• senate

• citizen

counting the number of people in a population

• forum

• census

• tripartite

• vault

great amphitheater, open-aired stadium, in Rome

• vault

• census

• senate

• colosseum

divided three ways, as in government

• tripartite

• senate

• census

• rhetoric

a general who made himself dictator of Rome for his entire lifetime

• tripartite

• citizen

• Julius Cesar

• Latins

wealthy leaders

• plebians

• latins

• patricians

• citizens

government where people elect their leaders

• tripartite

• republic

• rhetoric

• magistrate