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Gens

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Clan / family

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Revered one

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Best men, political faction of the senate who believe patricians should rule

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Mob panderers, political faction of senate who appeal to plebeians

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Wife under legal control of her husband

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Wife under legal control of her father

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Being simultaneously married twice

Answer 8

Lower class, provinical, foreigner or slave

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Traditional, exemplar of a Roman woman

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Toga of manhood, worn by of age men to demonstrate their becoming a full citizen

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Mars the avenger

Answer 12

Invented new goddess to represent the personified grain supply of Rome

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God of doorways

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Goddess of peace

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Divine personification of Rome

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Spirits of family ancestors

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Larder spirits

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Collective spirits of the Roman dead

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Sense of manhood of the family, represented by a snake

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Malicious ghostly spirits

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Household altar for daily sacrifices

Answer 22

Sacrosanct head of religion in Rome

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Major priests, serving 3 main deities (Jupiter, Mars & Quirinus)

Answer 24

College of law, accounting, disputes, inheritences, etc.

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Vestal virgins, sacred position of guarding the eternal flame of Rome

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College of augury/interpretation of the gods

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Two men for sacred actions, originally in charge of the sybilline books

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Books of prophecy bought by Tarquinius Superbus that were consulted when Rome was in crisis

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College of war declaration

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Three men banqueters, supervisors of the feast which occurs contrapunctual to the Roman games

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Leaping priests to Mars, minor, old priesthood

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Royal authority/total power

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Chief civil and magistrate office, has imperium

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Civil law administrator

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Religious festivals, public games, temples, upkeep, regulation & grain supply

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Financial officers

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Protector of plebes, with ability to veto laws

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Conduct census, review senate roll, enroll citizens, 5 year electoral office with great prestige

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Emergency position invoked in crisis which had supreme authority, no accountability and a maximum of 6 months in office

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The senate and the people of Rome

Answer 41

Every citizen belongs to, is the system for electing magistrates, everyone involved in centuries

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People who do not attend Tribal Assembly, as they are at a job

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Unequal factions within the Comitia Centuriata which each have one vote

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Manages passing of laws by vote

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35 people who share 1 vote for the Tribal Assembly

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Sacred position, invulnerable/impervious to harm by law

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Relationship position usually held by someone of lower socioeconomic class for societal power

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Relationship position occupied by someone of higher socioeconomic background utlised to help clietela for price

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Dictator for life, office granted to Julius Caesar

Answer 50

Faction responsible for the murder of Julius Caesar

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Master of the horses

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Star of Julius Caesar, the comet seen over JC's funeral games

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Triumvirs for confirming the republic with consular power

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Law that legitimised the triumvirate

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43BC, Triumvirate legitimised with consular power for 5 years with power over choosing yearly magistrates, Octavian to resign the consulship, Antony gains Gallia Cisalpina, Lepidus granted Spain, Pontifex Maximus and 42BC consulship, Octavian given Africa, Sardinia and Sicily, Octavian must marry Clodia Pulcher, & Antony & Octavian will deal with Brutus & Cassius, declaration of proscriptions

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Son of a god

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42BC, Antony to stay in East, Octavian returns to Italy, retains Sicily & Sardinia, Antony gains Gallia Narbonensis, Cisalpine Gaul becomes part of Italy, Lepidus has Spain confiscated (given to Octavian) & is relegated to Africa

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40BC, Octavian to rule Dalmatia, Sardinia, Spain & Gaul, Antony rules all Eastern provinces, Italy remains a recruiting ground, Lepidus retains Africa, Sextus Pompeius is left in possession of Sicily, Antony to marry Octavia,

Answer 59

39BC, Sextus to withdraw troops from Italy, make no further raids, gurantee Rome's corn supply from Sardinia & Sicily, & will recieve the Pelopennese, Sardinia, Corsica & Sicily, & is promised the 38BC consulship & membership to the Augur's college, All exiles in Sextus' army returned to civic rights, proscription survivors receive a quarter of property back, slaves serving with Sextus freed, free soldiers rewarded on the level of veterans, Octavian marries Scribonia

Answer 60

37BC, Antony to provide 120 ships, Octavian to provide 20,000 legionnares (only sends 2000), Triumvirate renewed for 5 more years

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Great drain, largest in Rome, cleaned & enlarged by Agrippa in 33BC

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Through victory, peace

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City of victory

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Gives Octavian the power to create new patrician families

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1st in the senate

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To restore prestige, senatorial cleansing of sorts

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The right to bring assisstance

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Sacred boundary of Rome

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Power to pardon criminal cases

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Plebeian voting space

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27BC, Augustus to personally rule imperial provinces & appoint provincial governers, given right to declare war & make treaties across empire, declaration of senatorial provinces, granted title of Augustus, retains power to appoint military tribunes & procurators, restoration of consular elections & power of traditional magistraces,

Answer 72

Tax collectors

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Award for saving a Roman citizen

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System of government that appears as a democracy but functions as a dictatorship

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Shield of virtue, dedicated to Augustus for displaying the four main virtues of Rome, displayed on the Curia Julia

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Senate house

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23BC, retains imperium in pomerium, granted maius imperium, tribunician potestas

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Power above all other proconsuls

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Unrivalled power in the senate to interfere with anything without the ability of other tribunes to veto him

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Constitutes the ideal true Roman male

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Fidelity, trustworthiness, faithfulness, confidence, reliability, & credibility

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Active observance of religious practice & ritual

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Militaristic character of Roman society, education, training & self-control

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Diginity & self-control

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Steadiness or perseverance, stoicism

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Reputation for worth & honour

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Divine laws

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Peace of the gods

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Peace of Rome, reliant on the Pax Deorum

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Depiction with a veiled head

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Priests of Jupiter

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Tangible encounter with deity

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Augustus' 18/17BC moral laws

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Encouragement of marriage & childrearing

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Criminalises adultery, as well as sex with widow or virgin

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Criminalises adultery and legalises the death penalty for adulterers, or exile to an island with a financial penalty

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Sacrificial spoon, representative symbol of the college of Pontiffs

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Staff representing the college of Augurs

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Couch of the gods

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19BC altar that was partially dedicated to Augustus, alongside a festival held annually to celebrate the anniverisary of his return from campaign

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Permitted days

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Augustus' own Lare

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Arch dedicated to Augustus after his triple triumph

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Roman military standaeds lost to Parthia by three generals, return negotiated by Tiberius

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Counterpose, a dynamic posing of a statue to convey movement

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Orator's pose, with one hand raised

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Chestpiece of armour

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Roman General's uniform

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Golden age under the rule of Saturn, ending when he is ursuped by Jupiter

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Forum of Rome, heart of the city

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Large multifunctional public buildings, monument to gens Julii

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Volcanic rock that makes up the back wall of Augustus' forum

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Back worship room of the Forum Augustum, containing the cult statue of Augustus

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Day of the father's murder, the name given to the day of Julius Caesar's murder

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One of the Leges Juliae, preventing the marriage of unsavoury pairings, for example to a manumissioned slave

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First citizen

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Sociopolitical ladder of Rome

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1st among the youth

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War spoils

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Conception in which twins have different genetic fathers

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Apollo who helped at Actium

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Famous statue of an athlete using a strigel, many replicas but original is from the court of Alexander the Great

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Agrippa's public baths

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Agrippa's large, open-air pool

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Portico off Vedius Pollio's house, made a public enrichment

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Public magnification

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Gardens of Agrippa

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Building holding the imperial cult, built by Agrippa

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Power of Rome

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4 horse chariot

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Written funerary/summative description of achievements

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Great men, statues in the Augustan Forum

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Ultimate spoils, typically from the enemy general

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Coloumns at the front

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Venus, foundress of the Julii clan

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Carved decorative bull skulls

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Decorative leaf relief

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Enclosure of stone walls, sacred

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Sacred bowls, ornamental relief of sacred bowls

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Continual pattern/motif in Roman art

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Corinthian style capital of Acanthus leaves, which are both native to Rome & symbolic of the golden age

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Projecting section above entabulature

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Upper, columned section of a building

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Shallow, rectangular column that projects beyond a wall, typically a structural support

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Alternative name for Horologium

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Large Egyptian obelisk/sundial made of red granite

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Sacred bands

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Finding of a location through augury

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Flowered swirls carved onto a building

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Regional NW Spain cult founded by Drusus

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1 of the 7 ancient wonders of the world, 1st 'mausoleum'

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Double crown worn by the Egyptian Pharoah

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Field of Mars

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Octavian's first wife, Antony's step-daughter

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Semicircle section of a building that protrudes outward

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Oversee sacrifices to Lares & Gods as well as harvests

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Augustus' grandchildren from Julia and Agrippa, formally adopted in 17BC

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Augustus' great nephew, adopted in 4AD

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Augustus' only biological child, a daughter who produces three grandchildren with Agrippa

Answer 160

Trojan games

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Fertility festival & cave it was held in, under Augustus' house

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Patron of Augustus' poets

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Augustus' nephew and intended heir

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Statue from Troy

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Bread and circuses

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Small babies representing plenty

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Speaking platform

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Area of dense plebeian housing

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Temple of divine Caesar

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Doors status of open/closed signify whether Rome is at war

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Augustus' stepson by Livia, last choice heir to Augustus' dynasty

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Victory celebration

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