Global- Chap 6

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Patrician

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Wealthy landowners in Rome who had most of the power

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Republic

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Roman form of democracy

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Plebeian

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Commoners in Rome; made up most of the population

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Legion

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• A large Roman military unit soldiers were divided into

- improved version of the phalanx

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Romulus and Remus

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• twin sons of Mars
• founded Rome in 753 BC
• Romulus was the first emperor

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Latins

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• considered to be the first Romans

- built the original settlement of Rome atop Palatine Hill

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Estruscans

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• Skilled metalworkers and engineers

- greatly influenced Roman culture

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Forum

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• Rome’s famous temple

- heart of Roman political life

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Twelve Tables

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Rome’s written code of laws that established the idea that all free citizens had the right to the protection of the law

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Consul

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• two of them
• commanded the army and directed the government
• ability to veto decisions

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Senate

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Aristocratic branch of Roman government with 300 members with legislative and administrative function

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Carthage

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• City located on the North African coast

- opposed the Romans

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Punic Wars

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• wars between Carthage and Rome
• 264 to 146 BC
• 3 major battles

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Hannibal

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• Carthagian general who was the mastermind behind the Punic Wars
• wanted to avenge Carthage’s defeat

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Battle of Zama

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• Third battle of the Punic Wars

- Roman general SCIPIO defeated Hannibal

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Gladiator

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Roman people who engaged in combat with animals and killed for enjoyment

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Gracchus brothers

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• Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

- tribunes who attempted to help Rome’s poor

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Actium

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naval battle between Antony & Cleopatra and Octavian

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Brutus

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Leader that planned to kill Julius Ceasar

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Cicero

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• Greatest Roman senator

- killed by second triumvirate for speaking against absolute power

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Pax Romana

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• The 207 year period when Augustus ruled

- Rome as it’s peak of power

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Augustus

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Title Octavian took when he became the unchallenged emperor of Rome

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Virgil

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Greco- Roman poet who wrote THE AENIED

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Gospels

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First 4 books of the bible that provides us with the main source of Jesus’s teachings

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Diocletian

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Divided the Roman Empire into east and west because he believed it was too big to control for one person

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Constantine

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Roman Empire who ended Christian persecution because he had a vision of a cross

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Edict of Milan

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Constantine declared Christianity to be one of the religions approved by the emperor

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Constantinople

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Capital of the Byzantium (named after Constantine)

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Huns

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A group of Mongol nomads that destroyed Germanic territory

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Attilla

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Chief Hun who terrorized the Roman Empire