Ancient Rome Unit Vocabulary

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting

• Oligarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Republic

• Absolute Monarchy

The middle and lower class and the majority of the Roman Republic. Ordinary citizens like farmers, craftsmen, laborers, etc.

• Aristocrat

• Plebeian

• Patrician

• Slave

The upper class in Rome. Less than 5% of the population. Individuals were born into this class of wealthy landowners, and high government positions.

• Plebeian

• Slave

• Metic

• Patrician

People who ruled over much of the Italian Peninsula before the Romans. Romans rebelled against these rulers when they felt they were too tyrannical and set up a republic instead.

• Etruscans

• Latins

• Greeks

• Persians

People who founded the city of Rome

• Macedonians

• Greeks

• Etruscans

• Latins

Wars fought against Carthage from 264 BCE to 146 BCE

• Persepolis Wars

• Peloponnesian Wars

• Punic Wars

• Persian Wars

A group of three rulers

• Triangular

• Triumvirate

• Tripod

• Triocracy

One of two leading officials in the ancient Roman Republic

• Consuls

• Monarchs

• Dictators

• Oligarchs

the official count of a population

• Calculus

• Veto

• Equate

• Census

To deny or put a stop to

• Veto

• Exchange

• Isolate

• Consult