AP World History Vocab: Chapter four Flashcards

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