TERM/PERSON
DEFINITION
Romulus & Remus
Twin boys of Mars.. Rome was named
for Romulus since he won the fight
between he and his brother
Tarquin the Proud
Was the last King of Rome
Patricians
Land holding upper class members of
the republic
Plebeians
Farmers, merchants, artisans, traders
A curved ceiling made of arches
Vault
Satire
A verse or prose that pokes fun at
human weakness
Senate
A governing body
Dictator
A person assigned to be in charge in
the event of a war for 6 months
Auxiliaries
Soldiers from lands conquered by the
Romans who volunteered to fight for
the Romans
Latifundia
Huge estates bought by wealthy
families
Pax Romana
Roman Peace
This peace lasted nearly 200 years
There was complete control, almost no
Pax Romana Continued
warfare
Caligula
-Nephew and adopted son of Tiberius
-His name means “little boots”
-he had 2 years of good rule then he
got ill and had a horrible 2 years of
ruling
Nero
-Was considered a tyrant ( a cruel
leader)
-He murdered his mother, stepbrother
and 2 of his wives
-He is accused of setting fire to Rome
and fiddling while it burnt
Hadrian
Trajan
Diocletian
Constantine
Etruscans
The Punic Wars
-He strengthened the empire’s
defenses
-He separated Roman territory in
Britannia
-Considered to be a great emperor
-Oversaw the expansion of the empire
to its greatest extent
-He was born into a non-patrician
family
-he divided the empire into 2 parts
(east and west)
-he moved the capital from Rome to
Byzantium
-renamed the city Constantinople
-converted to Christianity
were a tribe located North of Romethey spoke the language Latines
Rome fought Carthage in three wars
from 264-146 B.C., by the 3rd Punic war,
Rome had completely destroyed
Carthage and gained its
The Gracchus Brothers:
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Octavian
Julius Caesar
they worked to get the state to
distribute to the land to the poor
farmers
they also worked to get the state
to buy grain to feed the poor
they were patricians who were
elected tribunes
-he was sole ruler of Rome
- he was given the name “Augustus”
meaning “most high”
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Patricians vs. Plebeians
-
a Roman army general
his biggest rival was Pompey
he was murdered by a group of
senators
he had warnings about what
could happen to him
plebeians had no say in the
government
eventually got to elect their own
officials
they fought for 84 yrs to have a
role in the government
-
the time period beginning with
Augustus, when Rome was ruled
by emperors
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it is located on the banks of the
Tiber River
on and around 7 hills
Roman Empire
Geography of Rome
peninsula
land surrounded by water
the colosseum
a place where gladiatorial combats
were held
- was built by Vespasian