1. Unit 3: Rome Vocabulary – Part 1
Currency – System of Money
Republic – Government where the people elect their representatives
Punic – Latin for “Phoenician”
Legion – 6,000 Roman soldiers
Patrician – Rome’s upper/ruling class; wealthy landowners
Triumvirate – A political alliance of three people
Aqueduct – Engineering accomplishment through which water was moved throughout Rome for drinking, baths, crops, etc…
Plebian – Rome’s lower class: artisans, shopkeepers, small farmers
Latifundia – Large farming estate owned by patricians

2. Unit 3: Rome Vocabulary – Part 2
Consul – One of two patricians chose each year to run the government and head the army (most like our executive branch)
Veto – Latin for “I forbid”; to reject another’s decision
Praetor – Interpreted the law and acted as judges (most like judicial branch)
Dictator – Came to power to see Rome through a time of danger/crisis
Julius Caesar – Declared himself dictator for life 44 B.C.
Mare Nostrum – Latin for “our sea.”
Pax Romana – Roman period during which there was relative peace under Caesar Augustus
Augustus – Caesar’s grandnephew, changed his name from Octavian