Republic - Terms to Know
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- patrician
- wealthy landowning class
- dictator
- ruler with absolute power and could hold power for only 6 months
- century of assemblies
- assembly inside assembly; over 18 years old & could vote
- citizen
- member of a community with certain rights and duties
- censors
- counted population every 5 years, moral judges
- praetor
- judge responsible for criminal justice and international law
- republic
- system of gov't in which citizens who have the right to vote choose their leaders
- legion
- military formation made up of 6,000 soldiers
- tribunes
- official who was elected by plebeians to speak for their rights
- veto
- to reject/decline something
- plebeian
- working class, not rich
- 12 tables
- Roman written laws
- consul
- official from the patrician class who administered the laws of Ancient Rome
- SPQR
- senate & citizens are equal
- senate
- governing consul
- phalanx
- a massive formation of heavily armed foot soldiers