Rome Vocab

a human-made raised channel that carries water from distant places

• aqueduct

• consul

• patrician

• plebeian

a religion based on the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth

• Christianity

• Latin

• monotheism

• Judaism

the two most powerful officials in Rome

• senate

• plebeians

• patricians

• consuls

a ruler who has almost absolute power

• senate

• Julius

  Caesar

• patrician

• dictator

a Roman general who ended the Roman Republic when he seized power and became dictator for life

• Marcus

  Aurelius

• Julius

  Caesar

• Hannibal

• Pax

  Romana

the language of the Romans

• Romanian

• English

• Latin

• Barbarian

a noble, or upper class, in Roman society

• plebeian

• consul

• patrician

• senate

a period of general peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire

• Pax

  Romana

• Punic

  Wars

• consulate

• republic

a commoner of ancient Rome

• patrician

• consul

• plebeian

• aqueduct

a series of wars between Rome and Carthage

• Peloponnesian

  Wars

• Persian

  Wars

• Punic

  Wars

• Carthaginian

  Wars