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- Tribunes
- Officials elected by Rome's popular assemblies
- Pope
- title asumed by the patriarch of Rome and head of the catholic Church; from the Latin word meaning "father"
- checks and balances
- systems of government that prevents any one part of the government from becoming too powerful
- Censors
- Roman officials who registered citizens according to their wealth
- Consuls
- Cheif executives elected to run the government in ancient Rome
- Dictator
- Absolute ruler
- Republic
- Form of government in which voters elect officials to run the state
- Rabbis
- relgious cholars of Judaism
- Aqueducts
- bridgelike structures that carry water
- Inflation
- rise in prices caused by a decrease in the value of the medium of exchange
- Plebeians
- farmers and workers who made up most of hte Ro;man population
- Bishops
- heads of the Catholic Church in major cities
- Equites
- Class of business people and landowners in ancient Rome who had wealth and power
- Patriarchs
- Bishops of the administrative centers for the church in the last years of the Roman empire
- Patricians
- Powerful landowners who controlled Roman government and society
- veto
- Refuse to approve, as in a bill or law
- Praetors
- elected Roman officials who helped the consuls
- Triumvirate
- Politicla alliance of three rulers
- Martyrs
- Persons put to death for their beliefs
- Gladiators
- trained fighters, usually slaves, who fought in arenas as entertainment