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7628784197RepublicA government in which citizens rule through elected representatives(no monarch)0
7628784198SenateA group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Roman Republic.1
7628784199PatriciansThe wealthy, hereditary aristocrats during the Roman era.2
7628784200PlebiansCommon people of Rome3
7628784201ConsultsHeaded the executive side and elected from members of senate for one year term(not until diminshed that rule)4
7628784202TribunesRepresentatives of the plebians5
7628784203Julius Caesar100-44 B.C. Roman general who became the republic's dictator in 45 B.C.6
7628784204TriumvirateA group of three rulers7
7628784205Battle of Actium31 BC Octavian defeted Marc Antony for control of Rome8
7628784206Augustus CaesarRevered one, ocatavian established roman empire9
7628784207Princepsfirst citizen ; what augustus like you be called10
7628784208EquitiesClass of italian merchants and landowners who helped run the empire11
7628784209Law of the Twelve TablesRoman code of law administered by Augustus Caesar12
7628784210Pax RomanaRoman Peace; lasted until 2nd century13
7628784211Patron-clientMen of wealth that offerred help and protection for service, money, political support14
7628784212Punic Warsa series of wars between Rome and Carthage in the 200s and 100s BC15
76287842133rd Century CrisisEconomic problems returned aftet a series of weak emperors, and raids after nomadic people16
7628784214VirgilRoman poet that weote Aneid17
7628784215DiocletianRoman emperor who divided the empire into a West and an East section. Stopped the slide of the fall of rome/ 3 rd century18
7628784216ConstantineRoman emperor that made a capiatl city by his name in the east, sacrificing the west of rome to germanic tribes/4th century19
7628784217VisgothsA germanic tribe that over took rome in 5th century20
7628784218VandalsA Germanic tribe that conquered part of the Roman empire21

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