Unit 7: Rome Vocabulary

A type of writing that requires you to gather evidence and make a claim

• Comparison

• Argument

• Analyze

• Cause and Effect

In the Roman Republic, a member of the upper, ruling class

• Julius Caesar

• Plebeians

• Patricians

• Senate

A mountain range that runs through the “boot” of Italy from north to south.

• Patrician

• Apennines

• Tiber River

• Pax Romana

Julius Caesar’s grandnephew and adopted son, Octavian; Rome’s first emperor

• Caesar Augustus

• Julius Caesar

• Republic

• Consuls

Closely examine your evidence to draw conclusions about how and why it supports your claim

• Comparison

• Cause and Effect

• Argument

• Analyze

A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome

• Senate

• Tribune

• Patricians

• Consuls

Identifying how some events result in another event

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison

• Analyze

• Argument

A form of government in which leaders are elected to represent the people

• Senate

• Republic

• Apennines

• Pax Romana

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

• Republic

• Caesar Augustus

• Julius Caesar

• Pax Romana

In the Roman Republic, one of the common people

• Caesar Augustus

• Patricians

• Tribune

• Plebeians