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Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Section One: The Romans Create a Republic
1. Republic:
2. Patricians:
3. plebeians:
4. tribunes:
5. Twelve Tables:
6. consuls:
7. senate:
8. Centuriate Assembly:
9. Tribal Assembly:
10. Praetors:
11. dictators:
12. Roman legions:
13. veto:
14. Punic Wars:
15. Hannibal:
Section Two: The Roman Empire Brings Change
16. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus:
17. civil war:
18. Julius Caesar:
19. triumvirate:
20. absolute ruler:
21. Mark Antony:
22. Cleopatra:
23. Augustus:
24. Pax Romana:
25. civil service:
Bad Emperors
26. Caligula:
27. Nero:
28. Domitian:
Good Emperors
29. Nerva:
30. Trajan:
31. Hadrian:
32. Antoninus Pius:
33. Marcus Aurelius:
34. gladiators:
Roman name
Jupiter
Mars
Juno
Venus
Mercury
Pluto
Neptune
35. colosseum:
Greek name
Zeus
Ares
Hera
Aphrodite
Hermes
Hades
Poseidon
god of…
Head god
God of war
Mother of gods
Goddess of love
Messenger/medicine
God of the underworld
God of the sea
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Section Three: The Rise of Christianity
36. zealot:
37. Jesus:
38. Gospel:
39. apostles:
40. messiah:
41. Peter:
42. Paul:
43. Diaspora:
44. scapegoats:
45. hierarchy:
46. bishop:
47. pope:
48. Constantine:
49. Edict of Milan:
50. heresy:
Section Four: The Decline of the Roman Empire
51. inflation:
52. Diocletian:
53. Constantinople:
54. Alaric:
55. Attila:
56. sacked: