Midterm Exam

10 citizens elected to represent the plebeians and protect them in the government

• Patricians

• Praetors

• Tribunes

• Paterfamilias

Earliest code of Roman Law, created to appease the plebs

• Law of 12 Tables

• Republic

• Census

• Justinian Code

Official count of people or things

• Circus

• Province

• Consul

• Census

Roman judges

• Patricians

• Plebeians

• Praetors

• Consuls

A territory outside of Italy, run by the Rome government

• Circus

• Strait

• Inflation

• Province

A(n) ____ is a form of government in early Rome, where the people choose some of the officials. 

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Monarchy
• Republic

In the early Roman republic, members of the landholding upper class were called

• plebians
• patricians
• priests
• gladiators

An ordinary citizen in the ancient Roman Republic

• patrician
• plebian
• counsul
• mercenary

Hannibal attacked The Romans with

• Horses

• Elephants

• Lions

• Rhinos

How did the early Romans change the Greek gods they adopted?

• They provided them with Roman names.

• They gave them very different abilities.

• They changed their roles in their religion.

• They combined Zeus and Aphrodite.