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Roman History Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Veto | to Block laws the could be harmful |
Etruscans | People who lived mosly north of rome |
Republic | type of goverment |
Patricias | Memebers of the landholding upper class |
Consuls | They Supercised the business of goverment and command he armies |
Dicator | ruler who has complete control over goverment |
Plebeians | farmers merachanets and artisans who made up most of the population |
Tribunes | procted their intrests and did stuff to protect the plebians |
Imperilism | establshing conrol over peoples and forgin lands |
Latifundia | huge farming estates |
census | Population Count |
Satirize | make fun of roman society |
Mosaic | picture made from chips or colered stone or glass |
aqueducts | bridelike stone structrues that carried water from the hills into the roman cities |
Messiah | annotied kindg sent by god |
Legion | Basic unit of the ancinet rome army made up to about 5,000 soidleers |
aposltes | greek means a person sent forth |
Maytrs | people who die for their regilon |
Clegry | a group if people who conduct christen serives |
Bishop | high church offical resoisbke for eveyone in his diocese |
Patriasch | exericed athoury over bishops in the area |
inflation | rapid rise over prices |
huns | migrated from centreal asia toward esatern europe |
mercenaries | foregin soliders serving for pay to defnd its borders |
Julis Ceaser | Attmeped to make reforms help save the ailing republic Made himself absulte ruler |
Consrantine | Moved roamn power eastward bu buliding a capital at constanipotle granted toleration by christians through the edict of Milan |
Dicoletaion | divided the empite into 2 parts estern and western |
Marcus Aurelius | last great emperor of the Pax EEomana |
Octivan/ Augstus | Declared exalted one and first citzen by senate first ruler of the pax romanan |