Rome
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- Hannibal
- who famously led his forces -- including elephants -- across the Alps and into Rome, where he terrorized Roman forces during the Second Punic War
- Imperator
- an absolute ruler with as much power as emperor
- Patricians
- high birth or social position
- Consul
- an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country and represent his or her government's commercial interests and assist its citizens there
- Carthage
- an ancient city and state of northern Africa on the Bay of Tunis northeast of modern Tunis. fought against rome in punic wars
- Senate
- assembly possessing high legislative powers
- The Republic
- a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them
- Punic Wars
- any of the three wars (264-241, 218-201, and 149-146 B.C.) fought between Rome and Carthage, resulting ultimately in the destruction of Carthage and the gain by the Romans of its territory in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Africa, and Spain
- Dictator
- an absolute ruler
- Diocletian
- Diocletian (245-ca. 313), in full Gaius Aurelius Va lerius Diocletianus, was a Roman emperor. He established the characteristic form of government for the later empire, the Dominate
- Latifundia
- large agricultural estates originating in distributions by lease of ager publicus ('state-owned land') in the early second century BC.
- Veto
- denying or rejecting newly created laws harmful to plebeians
- The Empire
- a government that is ruled by a king
- The Laws of the Twelve Tables
- granted rights to all citizens, allowed Plebians to become magistrates
- Tribunes
- an officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates
- The Gracchi
- Roman statesmen and social reformers, the two brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c.164-133 BC) and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (c.153-121 BC)
- Julius Caesar
- led rome to be a empire; the most famous of Roman generals
- Struggle for the Orders
- plebeians struggle for political equality with patricians in Republic
- Augustus (Octavian)
- first emperor of Rome; successer of Julius Caesar; Reforms the rome
- Plebeians
- the common people
- Pax Romana
- the Roman peace
- Constantine
- first Christian Roman emperor (306-37); reuniting the Roman Empire, he moved the capital to Constantinople
- Client-Patron
- patron helps their plebians become a patrician in exchange for some type of service. clients depended on their patrons for everything