Romans
Terms to Know: Republic
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- Praetor
- an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic
- Patrician
- The wealthy, upper-class citizens of early Rome.
- Plebian
- The Middle, working-class citizens of early Rome.
- Assemblies
- approved legislation
- Phalanx
- A massive formation of heavily armed foot soldiers.
- Consul
- One of two officials who led the government in the ancient Roman republic
- Republic
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- Senate
- Council that rules Rome.
- Dictator
- One who was chosen by the Senate to hold absolute and uncontested power.
- Tribunes
- representatives of lower class (plebians)
- SPQR
- Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and the People of Rome)
- Veto
- the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature)
- 12 Tables
- who-plebians/government; when-450 b.c.; where-rome; why-made it possible for plebians to appeal judgement handed down by patrician judge
- Censors
- Officials who appointed candidates to the Senate and oversaw the moral conduct of all citizens.
- Century
- 100 years
- Citizen
- a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights