Rome Vocabulary

to reject a decision made by another government body

• veto

• reform

• epistle

the art of public speaking

• legend

• oratory

• epistle

a channel or pipe that carries water from a spring, stream, or lake into town

• aqueduct

• plebeian

• tribune

class of people made up of wealthy landowners and government officials

• patrician

• barbarian

• plebeian

In ancient Rome, an official elected by the plebeians to protect their rights

• oratory

• tribune

• consul

class of mostly common farmers

• patrician

• gladiator

• plebeian

one of a pair of leaders of Rome's executive brand of government

• aqueduct

• consul

• epistle

a picture made from tiny pieces of colored stone or other materials

• republic

• mosaic

• Punic Wars

Wars between the Romans and Carthaginians that marked Rome as the preeminent power in the eastern as well as the western Mediterrancean

• Punic Wars

• oratory

• aristocracy

A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Roman Republic

• aqueduct

• tribune

• Senate