Ancient Rome - Mr. B's Vocabulary Stack #190878
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| plebeian | show 🗑
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| patrician | show 🗑
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| consul | show 🗑
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| Laws of the Twelve Tablets (Tables) | show 🗑
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| Roman assembly | show 🗑
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| show | Body made up of representatives from 300 patrician families / governed military affairs and foreign territories / made gov't budget / advised consuls / in office for life
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| show | literally "I forbid" - the power to say no to a law / held by consuls over each other and by tribunes over the Senate
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| show | tribe from northern Italy / conquered Romans around 600 BC / traded with Greeks and shared Greek ideas with Romans / last king of Rome,
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| show | Twin brothers who founded Rome. According to Roman mythology, they were raised by a she-wolf
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| Pax Romana | show 🗑
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| emperor | show 🗑
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| Julius Caesar | show 🗑
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| show | 5. Assassinated by Senators in the Forum during the Ides of March, in 44 BC
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| Augustus Caesar | show 🗑
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| Pompeii | show 🗑
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| Herculaneum | show 🗑
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| Marcus Aurelius | show 🗑
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| Trajan | show 🗑
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| Hadrian | show 🗑
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| Nero | show 🗑
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| Tiberius | show 🗑
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| show | Roman Emperor from 37 to 41AD. Name means "little soldier's boots". Known for his cruelty, and for constructing 2 of Rome's largest aqueducts. He was assassinated by the Praetorian Guard.
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| Constantine | show 🗑
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| show | Carthaginian general who invaded Italy and defeated several Roman armies. Led his war elephants across the Alps.
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| Carthage (Carthaginians) | show 🗑
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| Punic Wars | show 🗑
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| Gaul | show 🗑
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| show | King of the Gauls; defeated by Julius Caesar
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| Romulus & Remus | show 🗑
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| Attila the Hun | show 🗑
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| Pompey | show 🗑
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| Crassus | show 🗑
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| show | was the a queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty and the last pharaoh of Egypt. She had a child by Caesar, and after his death, allied with Marc Antony but was defeated by Rome. She committed suicide with an asp (poisonous snake)
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| show | It was an infantry unit consisting of heavily armed soldiers, equipped with shields, armor, helmets, spears and swords. In the early republic, the strength of a legion was about 3,000 men; 4,800 legionaries in the days of Julius Caesar.
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| show | Roman Legionnaires who were the Emperor's personal bodyguard. They wore purple capes.
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| show | Was a professional officer of the Roman army. Most centurions commanded 83 men despite the commonly assumed 100, but senior centurions commanded cohorts, or took senior staff roles in their legion.
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| "Crossing the Rubicon" | show 🗑
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| show | to murder for political reasons
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| "Et tu Brute?" | show 🗑
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| show | Roman general who conquered Carthage
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| Pax Romana | show 🗑
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| Appian Way | show 🗑
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| show | a structure that carries water over a long distance.
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| show | a large amphitheatre built in Rome around 70AD, site of contests and combats between people, and animals.
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| oculus | show 🗑
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| gladiators | show 🗑
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| Circus Maximus | show 🗑
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| cuniculus | show 🗑
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| show | the Latin word for "forbid"; Roman rulers could veto laws made by the Roman Senate
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| Roman Forum | show 🗑
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| Palatine Hills | show 🗑
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| fasces | show 🗑
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| S.P.Q.R. | show 🗑
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| show | a type of government in which citizens who have the right to vote select their leaders; elected leaders rule in the name of the people
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| show | a foreign soldier who serves in teh army only for pay
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| Tiber River | show 🗑
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| show | They were the largest thermae (heated baths) in the world when completed in 217 AD, covering 27 acres and could serve 1600 citizens of all classes. They were functional for over 300 years.
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| Londinium | show 🗑
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| show | sea to the west of Italian Peninsula
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| show | sea to the northeast of Italian Peninsula
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| Alps | show 🗑
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| Apennine Mountains | show 🗑
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| show | a person in the ancient Roman Republic appointed to rule for six months in times of emergency, with all teh powers of a king. Ex: Julius Caesar
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| Christianity | show 🗑
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| show | someone willing to sacrifice their life for their beliefs
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| show | a letter; in the Christian Bible, letterswritten by disciples like Paul to early Christian groups
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| show | a distinctive wool garment of Ancient Rome, a cloth about twenty feet in length which was wrapped around the body and was generally worn over a tunic. After the 2nd century BC, the toga was a garment worn exclusively by men.
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| show | The Celts were a group of peoples that occupied lands stretching from the British Isles to Gallatia (Spain)
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| show | Island of Britain, home of the Celts
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| inflation | show 🗑
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| show | Roman coins (currency) 1. an ancient Roman silver coin, the penny of the New Testament 2. Later, an ancient Roman gold coin, worth 25 silver denarii
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| Ostrogoths | show 🗑
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| show | A Germanic tribe of barbarians who invaded Rome and were known as fierce sea raiders. They reputation for destroying property.
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| show | Roman language derived from Greek and Phoenician alphabets
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| show | a unit of soldiers within a Roman Legion; One (1) Legion = 10 cohorts; one (1) cohort = 6 centuries (100 men each)
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| Triumvirate | show 🗑
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| show | Lasted from 27 BC to 576 AD whose boundaries changed over time, but at its greatest extent stretched from Britain in the West to North Africa in the South, and the Persian Gulf in the East.
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| catacombs | show 🗑
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| scutum | show 🗑
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| show | double-edged roman short sword
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| pilum | show 🗑
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| Lorica Segmentata | show 🗑
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| miliarium | show 🗑
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| show | Term derived from the Roman Army's harsh punishment for mutiny or cowardice, where every 10th man (decimal)was executed.
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| Caesar's Bridge | show 🗑
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| Date: March 15th, 44 B.C. | show 🗑
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| show | The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
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| Date: 79 A.D. | show 🗑
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| keystone arch | show 🗑
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| show | Romans invented a unique and very durable mortar that mixed limestone with volcanic ash (pozzilana)that could even harden underwater.
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| show | Emperor who completedthe construction of the Colosseum (Coliseum). Built by 10,000 Jewish slaves brought to Rome after their revolt against the Romans was crushed and Jerusalem destroyed.
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| show | Meaning to rip or split apart. The Roman empire was divided into Western (Rome) and Eastern (Constantinople) empires by Emperor Constantine.
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| show | Famous Roman writers and historians
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| show | device used by Roman engineers to sight lines and distance for building roads, aqueducts, etc. Consisted of a pole with crossed rods at a 90 degree angle balanced on the top, with lead weights dangling from the end of each rod.
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| Gospel | show 🗑
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| show | Disciple of Jesus who spent his later life spreading Jesus' teachings; his writings or "epistles" helped turn Christianity into an organized religion.
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| show | Underground cemetery of many tunnels and passageways. Early Christians hid and lived in them while hiding from Roman persecution.
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