Louisiana Believes - 4th - Unit 4 CH1 Vocab

a piece of land stucking out into a body of water so that it is almost surrounded by water

• dictator

• peninsula

• consul

• veto

a form of government in which people elect representatives to rule for them

• aqueduct

• laying seige

• plebeian

• republic

a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of Rome

• official

• toga

• patrician

• corrupt

a person who was an ordinary free Roman in the lower social class

• plebeian

• peninsula

• majority

• patrician

one of two people elected to rule the Roman Republic

• consul

• civil war

• patrician

• official

to reject or refuse to approve a law

• laying seige

• veto

• corrupt

• republic

a person who carries out a government duty

• dictator

• official

• toga

• plebeian

more than one-half

• civil war

• toga

• official

• majority

surrounding enemy buildings or other locations so that those within cannot receive supplies

• laying seige

• aqueduct

• peninsula

• consul

traditional Roman clothing made of fabric draped around the body

• corrupt

• veto

• toga

• aqueduct