World history-Roman Vocabulary

Bridge-like structures that carry water over valleys and rivers and through mountains to towns throughout the Roman Empire.

• Republic

• Aqueduct

powerful landowners who controlled the Roman government and society

• Patrician

• Aqueduct

common workers who made up most of the Roman population but who began with few political rights

• Plebeian

• Republic

This is a collection of old Roman Republic laws that formed the basis of Byzantine law under Emperor Justinian. The Byzantine Empire will be the empire that replaces the Roman Empire.

• Justinian's Code

• Republic

• Hammurabi's Code

paintings done on wet plaster walls

• Mosaics

• Frescoes

government that unites different territories and peoples under one ruler with absolute authority

• Empire

• democracy

Two brothers, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, who saw the need for reform in the Roman Republic in order to protect the interests of the common people.

• The Gracchi Brothers

• Republic

form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state with a built in system of check and balances that prevents anyone from having too much power

• Republic

• The Gracchi Brothers