Terms Test #1 Flashcards

(38 cards)

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Aqueduct

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Tubes transporting water around the city

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Candidatus

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Candidate of Roman office

Name after gown worn by them

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Civitas Foederatae

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Citizenship for states and allies

Pay no taxes, but retain their independence

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Civitas Optimo Iure

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Citizenship with the highest rights

Full citizenship of Roman State

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Civitas Sine Suffragio

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Half-Citizenship

Without the right to vote

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Client

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Someone who pays homage to a patron or benefactor

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Commercium

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Business

The right of a Latin to own Roman land

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8
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Conclave

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Toilets

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Consuls

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Chief annual magistrate of the Roman Republic

One of a pair

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Conubium

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Marriage

The right to to enter into a marriage recognized by Roman law

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Curia

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Central meeting hall / Senate house

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12
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Decemviri

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A Latin term meeting “ten men”

Designates any such commission in the Roman Republic

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13
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Equites

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Rich Political types

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Fasces

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Bundle of rods surmounted by an axhead carried by official attendants before a Roman magistrate as a symbol of his authority

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Fortica

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Toilet, with communal sponges

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16
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Honorius

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Roman Emperor

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Insulae

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Apartments for poor

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Insula Felicles

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Apartments taller than 5 stories

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Latifundia

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Slave plantations

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Lictors

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Official attendant who escorted and assisted a Roman Magistrate by carrying the Fasces in front of him

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Manumission

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The act of slave owner freeing his or her slaves

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Migratio

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The right to become a citizen of another city, simply by moving to that city

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Negotium

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Non-leisure part of life

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Novus Homo

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A new man

First member of a family to become a Roman Senator

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Paedogogus
A teacher or nanny
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Patricians
Referred to a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members
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Patroni
The intended head of the organization or family being bestowed upon
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Peculium
Allowance of a slave
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Pilleus
Given to a slave when he is freed | looks like a dunce cap
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Plebs
The general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census
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Pomerium
Religious boundary outside of a Rome
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Otium
Leisure time
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Obsterix
Latin name for midwife
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Quaestor
Originally assistant to the consul investigate murders keepers of the public treasury patricians later plebs
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Res Publica
Public affair | A form of political constitution no fully democratic, but not kingship
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Samnites
Bad relationship with Rome
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Sesterces
Roman Coin
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Tyrannoi
No succession | Not democracy but a bunch of people deciding who is the next king