Unit 6 Vocab Menu Assignment by Robert Scaliatine

dictator

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a person granted absolute emergency power

forum

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the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business

Triumvirate

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the office or government of triumvirs

consuls

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either of two annually elected chief magistrates of the Roman republic

Paterfamilias

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the male head of a household

assembly

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a company of persons gathered for deliberation and legislation, worship, or entertainment

gladiator

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a person engaged in a fight to the death as public entertainment for ancient Romans

Senate

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an assembly or council usually possessing high deliberative and legislative functions: such as

Magistrates

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a principal official exercising governmental powers over a major political unit (such as a nation)

Latifundia

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a great landed estate with primitive agriculture and labor often in a state of partial servitude

Plebeian

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a member of the Roman plebs

Republic

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a government in which the power belongs to a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by the leaders and representatives elected by those citizens to govern according to law

aqueduct

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a conduit for water especially one for carrying a large quantity of flowing water

Legion

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the principal unit of the Roman army comprising 3000 to 6000 foot soldiers with cavalry

Tribunes

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a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates

Province

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a country or region brought under the control of the ancient Roman government

patrician

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a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome

veto

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an authoritative prohibition interdiction