Rome Vocab

Government in which citizens have the right to select their own leader

• Patrician

• Republic

• plebeian

• tribune

Aristocratic landowner

• Patrician

• Republic

• Plebeian

• Tribune

Farmer, artisan, or merchant; commoner

• Republic

• Patrician

• Plebeian

• Tribune

Official who helped the plebeians protect their rights

• Consul

• Tribune

• Patrician

• Republican

Official who was like a king

• Tribune

• Consul

• Plebeian

• Senate

Aristocratic branch of Rome's government

• consul

• Plebeian

• senate

• tribune

Roman leader who had absolute power to make laws and command the army for a brief period

• senate

• dictator

• consul

• plebeian

Military unit of the ancient Roman army

• dictator

• legion

• senate

• consul

series of wars between Rome and Carthage

• Peloponnesian War

• Persian War

• Punic Wars

• Trojan War

Cathaginian general who invaded northern Italy

• Julius Caesar

• Hannibal

• Augustus

• Constantine