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23 Cards in this Set
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Gladiator |
A person, usually a slave, who fought in a arena against animals or other gladiators for the entertainment of the audience |
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Paterfamilias |
Head of a roman family, with life-and-death power over family members |
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Collegiality |
Shared responsibility for the same office |
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Consul |
Highest ranking annual roman official, whose primary duty was to lead the army |
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Legion |
Largest unit of roman army, roughly 5,000 men |
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Triumph |
Victory ceremony given to a roman general who had won a great victory |
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Census |
Assessment of property carried out by the censors for taxation purposes |
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Twelve tables |
First written collection of roman law, created by decemvirs in 451-450b.c.e. |
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Rule of law |
The idea that the law has higher authority than governments and officials |
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Princeps |
The first man on the list of senators drawn up by the censors |
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New man |
A consul who did not have an ancestor who had been a consul |
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Celts |
The people of the inland Europe, also known as Gauls |
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Gaul |
Modern France, homeland of the Gauls |
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Militia |
Military force of nonprofessional citizen soldiers |
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Pyrrhus of Epirus |
Greek king who fought the Romans between 280 and 275b.c.e. |
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Italian alliance |
Defeated cities and peoples of Italy who were required to follow romantic foreign policy and supply Rome with soldiers |
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Punic wars |
Series of 3 wars that Rome fought against Carthage in North Africa |
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Indemnity |
Monetary penalty imposed by the Romans on a defeated ememy |
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Hannibal |
Carthaginian general who invaded Italy in 218b.c.e., beginning the second punic war |
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Numidia |
Region of western North Africa famous for horsemanship |
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Scipio Africanus |
Roman general who defeated Hannibal at the battle of Zama in 202b.c.e. |
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Cato the elder |
Conservative romantic senator who represented old roman values and opposed the assimilation of Greek culture |
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Scorpio Aemilianus |
Roman senator who defeated Carthage and favored the assimilation of Greek culture |
