Crossword Vocabulary Flashcards
(30 cards)
Synonym roman government official?
Magistrate
A term for a roman territory outside of Italy?
Province
Soldiers on foot?
Infantry
Volcanic mountain outside of Capua?
Vesuvius
Roman legal code
Twelve tables
Roman senator who said (repeatedly), “Carthage must be destroyed!”
Cato
Slave trained to fight for entertainment?
Gladiator
Rome was founded on this river?
Tiber
Roman general who defeated Spartacus
Crassus
Senate and the people of Rome
SPQR
The civilization that founded Carthage
Phoenician
Early people of Italy who conquered Rome
Etruscans
Roman official; monitored roman morality; counted population
Censor
Legendary founder of Rome
Romulus
Soldiers on horseback
Calvary
Field of Mars; used for voting and assembling the army
Campus
First Punic war was fought for control of this
Sicily
Battle in Italy where the Carthaginians smashed 2 roman armies
Cannae
Roman word for sword
Gladius
Carthage conquered this land after the first Punic war
Iberia
Roman country home
Villa
Roman general who defeated the Carthaginians at Zama
Scipio
A religion in which multiple gods are worshipped
Polytheism
Roman Government Official; elected by plebs; had veto power
Tribune
