Ancient Rome: Vocabulary

having characteristics of Roman culture with a strong Greek influence

• Greco-Roman

• civic

• Pax Romana

• plebeian

having to do with the community

• civic

• plebeian

• patrician

• Greco-Roman

a set of basic laws

• civic

• constitution

• tribune

• Senate

one of two chief leaders of the Roman Republic

• consul

• tribune

• patrician

• plebeian

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

• patrician

• plebeian

• consul

• tribune

in the Roman Republic, one of the common people

• patrician

• plebeian

• consul

• tribune

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

• Greco-Roman

• constitution

• republic

• Pax Romana

a group of 300 men elected to govern Rome

• Senate

• dictator

• assembly

• Congress

an official of Rome elected by plebeians to represent them

• patrician

• consul

• tribune

• dictator

a ruler with absolute power

• dictator

• consul

• patrician

• constitution