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| 126534115 | Pax Romana | A period of peace and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180. | 0 | |
| 126534116 | Senate | assembly possessing high legislative powers | 1 | |
| 126534117 | Octavian | Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC | 2 | |
| 126534118 | Dictator | A ruler who has complete power over a country | 3 | |
| 126534119 | Celtics | Indo-European peoples that largely dominated northern Europe, particularly in modern-day France and Great Britain | 4 | |
| 126534120 | Cleopatra | She was an egyptian queen who had an affair with Marc Antony. She commits suicie with Marc Antony because Marc was defeated at Actium and Augustus was after them. | 5 | |
| 126534121 | Gaul | an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands | 6 | |
| 126534122 | Carthage | an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis | 7 | |
| 126534123 | Jesus of Nazareth | a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth | 8 | |
| 126534124 | TIber River | a river flowing southward from north-central Italy across the Latium plain, and into the Tyrrhenian Sea | 9 | |
| 126534125 | consuls | Two officials from the patrician class were appointed each year of the Roman Republic to supervise the government and command the armies | 10 | |
| 126534126 | plebeians | lower class, usually small farmers | 11 | |
| 126534127 | patricians | the wealthy class in Roman society; landowners | 12 | |
| 126534128 | Republic | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 13 | |
| 126534129 | tribunes | An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates. | 14 | |
| 126534130 | Paul of Tarsus | A Jew from Asia Minor that played the most influential role in the spread of Christianity. Paul never met Jesus but he had a vision one day of speaking to him. | 15 | |
| 126534131 | Pater Familias | "father of the family"; this was generally the eldest man of the house, and he ruled the household; he'd decide marriage for the kids, and what job they would do and he could punish them too; he could even sell them to slavery | 16 | |
| 126534132 | Augustus | Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC | 17 | |
| 126534133 | Mare Nostrum | (our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans | 18 | |
| 126534134 | Julius Caesar | conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) | 19 | |
| 126534135 | Punic Wars | A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage (264-146 B.C.); resulted in the destruction of Carthage and Rome's dominance over the western Mediterranean. | 20 | |
| 126534136 | Colosseum | amphitheater in Rome built about AD 75 or 80 | 21 | |
| 126534137 | bread and circuses | public entertainment that roman elites used to keep the plebeians happy and distracted from problems in the empire | 22 | |
| 126534138 | Diocletian | Roman emperor who was faced with military problems, when that happend he decided to divide the empire between himself in the east and maximian in the west. he did the last persecution of the Christians | 23 | |
| 126534139 | Constantine | a walled city in northeastern Algeria east of Algiers | 24 | |
| 126534140 | Constantinople | the largest city and former capital of Turkey | 25 | |
| 126534141 | Visigoths | The western Goths, invade Italy and Spain after the partitioning of the empire | 26 | |
| 126534142 | western and eastern Roman empires | as the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285. was the predominantly Greek-speaking eastern Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered around its capital of Constantinople. | 27 | |
| 126534143 | Huns | Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome | 28 | |
| 126534144 | Attila | king of the Huns | 29 | |
| 126534145 | 476 C.E. | Fall of Rome | 30 | |
| 126534146 | St. Augustine | early christian leader who writes the book City of God that instructs how Christians are to be | 31 | |
| 126534147 | Bishop of Rome | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 32 | |
| 126534148 | Po River | Longest river in Italy | 33 | |
| 126534149 | latifundia | Huge estates owned by wealthy families | 34 |
