Ancient Rome Vocab Quiz

A slave or captive, who was forced to fight to the death in a public arena against another person or a wild animal

• Plebeians

• Magistrates

• Veto

• Gladiator

The physical feature where Rome was built. It was shallow making it easy to cross.

Provided travel to trade in the sea.

• River Valley

• Peninsula

• Tiber River

• Mountain

A style of government run by elected leaders chosen by the people to represent their views.

• Democracy

• Republic

• Consuls

• Dictatorship

A series of wars between Rome and Carthage, a city in northern Africa. 

• Punic Wars

• Roman Senate

• Magistrates

• Civil War

Rome’s lower class who rebelled when they weren’t being listened to.

• Consul

• Patricians

• Plebeians

• Kings

A method of balancing power so that one group doesn’t become too powerful.

• Scales

• Consuls

• Magistrates

• Checks and Balances

Rome’s upper class citizens who ran the government.

• Senate

• Patricians

• Roman Assembly

• Plebeians

The action of stopping a law from being passed when one group wants it to and another doesn’t.

• Veto

• Final Cut

• Assemble

• Law Resistance

A group of upper class Romans that advised the leaders.

• Roman Assembly

• Magistrates

• Roman Senate

• Consuls

A group that protected the rights of the plebeians [lower class]

• Roman Senate

• Roman Assembly

• Consuls

• Republic