Rome Vocabulary

Who was Rome's first emperor?

• Lucius Quinctius

• Julius Ceasar

• Pompey

• Ceasar Agustus

a war between groups in the same country

• foreing war

• civil war

• Punic War

• world war

a ruler with absolute power

• empire

• plebeian

• dictator

• tyrant

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

• Ceasar Agustus

• Hannibal

• Little Caesar

• Julius Caesar

a 200-year period of peace and stability established and maintained

• site of encounter

• republic

• Pax Romana

• Renaissance

a series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage for control of the Mediterranean

• civil wars

• Punic Wars

• Pax Romana

• regional wars

Roman emperor from about 280 to 337 C.E.; the first Roman emperor to become a Christian

• Julius Caesar

• Caesar Agustus

• Constantine

• Cato

a pipe or raised channel built to carry water over a long distance

• aqueduct

• arch

• empire

• kinship

a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government

• city-state

• mossaic

• kinship

• empire

the study of wisdom, knowledge, and the nature of reality

• belief

• inference

• philosophy

• empire