ancient rome VoCaB
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- REPUBLIC
- thing of the people. romans thought it would keep any individual from gaining too much power
- PATRICIAN
- members of the landholding upper class
- CONSUL
- supervisors of business of government and commanders of the armies
- DICTATOR
- ruler who has complete control over a government
- PLEBEIANS
- farmers, merchants, artisans and traders who make up the bulk of the population and had little influence
- TRIBUNE
- plebeian officials who protected their interests and could veto laws
- VETO
- block
- LEGION
- basic military unit made up of 5000 men
- IMPERIALISM
- establishing control over foreign lands and peoples.
- LATIFUNDIA
- huge estates that had slaves
- PROVINCE
- lands under Roman rule such as macedonia and greece
- CENSUS
- population count that was taken in the empire under agustus
- SATIRIZE
- make fun of. like horace and juvenal and martial
- MOSAIC
- picture made of chips of colored stone or glass
- ENGINEERING
- application of science and math to develop useful structures and machines
- AQUEDUCTS
- bridgelike stone structures that brough water from the hills into roman cities