unit 6 vocab by Jonah Frew

Dictator

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:20 UTC

a person granted absolute emergency power

Forum

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:24 UTC

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

Triumvirate

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:28 UTC

a group or association of three

Consuls

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:33 UTC

either of two annually elected chief magistrates of the Roman republic

Paterfamilias

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:37 UTC

a man who originates or is a leading figure in something

Assembly

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:39:41 UTC

a building in ancient Rome for people to gather in.

Gladiator

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:40:55 UTC

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

Senate

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:43:08 UTC

the supreme council of the ancient Roman republic and empire

Magistrates

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:45:00 UTC

a principal official exercising governmental powers over a major political unit

Latifundia

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-03 12:46:21 UTC

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

Plebeian

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-07 12:12:29 UTC

a member of the Roman plebs

Republic

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-07 12:14:46 UTC

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

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:39:24 UTC

a structure for conveying a canal over a river or hollow

Legion

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:40:22 UTC

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

Tribunes

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:41:53 UTC

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

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:46:37 UTC

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

Patricians

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:47:37 UTC

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

Veto

jonfre8617 — 2025-04-09 12:48:30 UTC

a power of one department or branch of a government to forbid or prohibit finally or provisionally the carrying out of projects attempted by another department