Ancient Rome Lesson 3 Vocabulary

consul and general who encouraged poor people to join the army

• Brutus

• Spartacus

• Gaius Marius
• Julius Caesar

rival of Marius who raised his own army to defeat Marius and take control of Rome

• Julius Caesar

• Spartacus

• Gaius Marius

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla

slave and former gladiator who led an uprising of slaves

• Spartacus
• Gladiator
• Cicero

• Maximus

a gifted philosopher and orator

• Cicero

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Brutus

a public speaker

• orator

• philosopher

• teacher

• Senator

Roman general who became dictator for life

• Julius Caesar
• Pompey

• Gaius Marius
• Marcus Aurelius

a powerful man in Rome who fought against the Roman Senate

• Brutus

• Cicero
• Julius Caesar
• Pompey

a young Senator who was once a friend and ally of Caesar's

• Cicero
• Pompey
• Cassius
• Brutus

Caesar's former assistant who took control of Roman politics

• Spartacus

• Mark Antony
• Julius Caesar
• Brutus

the queen of Egypt

• Augustus

• Hatshepsut
• Nefertiti
• Cleopatra