10385299385 | Plebeians | A commoner in Ancient Rome | ![]() | 0 |
10385313645 | Patricians | an aristocrat or nobleman. | ![]() | 1 |
10385317102 | checks and balances | counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups | ![]() | 2 |
10385320585 | Law of Twelve Tables | a set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome | ![]() | 3 |
10385329691 | Consuls | an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government's citizens and interests there. | ![]() | 4 |
10391001852 | Roman Senate | a political institution in the ancient Roman kingdom | ![]() | 5 |
10391006263 | tribunes | an official in ancient Rome chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests. | ![]() | 6 |
10391010518 | Cicero | An orator, writer, and statesman of ancient Rome | ![]() | 7 |
10391013552 | Spartacus Rebellion | a Thracian gladiator who, along with the Gauls Crixus, Gannicus, Castus, and Oenomaus, was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War | ![]() | 8 |
10391016485 | Julius Caesar | the general and dictator Julius Caesar. | ![]() | 9 |
10391026371 | Octavian | Octavian was the name used commonly for Emperor Augustus. | ![]() | 10 |
10391031829 | Pax Romana | the peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. | ![]() | 11 |
10391035609 | Edict of Milan | a letter signed by the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius, that proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire. | ![]() | 12 |
10391039169 | Constantine | Constantine the Great, the Christian emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. | ![]() | 13 |
10391041619 | Virgil | used for the Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro | ![]() | 14 |
10391049849 | the Aeneid | a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas | ![]() | 15 |
10391053634 | Stoicism | an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. | ![]() | 16 |
10391072357 | Paul and Peter` | phrases meaning to take from one person or thing to give to another | ![]() | 17 |
10391080411 | St Augustine | one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church | ![]() | 18 |
10391134145 | martyrdom | the death or suffering of a martyr. | 19 |
AP World History Vocab: Chapter four Flashcards
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