1. Absolute Ruler

2. Dictator

3. A group of 3 people having equal power

4. triumvirate

5. Members of the oldest and richest of Roman families

6. Patricians

7. Roman tax collectors

8. publicans

9. Large estates

10. latifundias

11. A form of government where people choose their rulers

12. republic

13. Roman soldiers

14. legionaries

15. To say “no” to

16. veto

17. Poorer citizens

18. plebeians

19. Two people at the head of the Roman Republic

20. consuls

21. These two brothers were known as “reformers”

22. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus Gaius Sempronius Gracchus

23. Outcome of 1st Punic War

24. Rome gains Sicily

25. Outcome of 2nd Punic War

26. Carthagians pay a huge sum of money to the Romans and lose most of territories, including Spain.

27. Outcome of the 3rd Punic War

28. Total devastation to Carthage and Corinth. Towns burned
Total devastation to Carthage and Corinth. Towns burned. Salt plowed into the fields. People murdered or enslaved.

29. This Carthaginian ruler used elephants and crossed the Alps

30. Hannibal

31. This was the Etruscan King overthrown by the Romans

32. Tarquin the Proud

33. This member of the Roman Republic was chosen for life

34. senators

35. What is a corvus

36. A moveable bridge added to a boat to transfer troops

37. What are the 12 Tables

38. The bronze tablets that the Roman laws were written on

39. What is the Ides of March?

40. March 15th

41. Where was Hannibal’s only defeat?

42. Zama

43. Who were the members of the 1st triumvirate?

44. Marcus Licinius Crassus Gnaeus Pompeius Julius Caesar

45. Who were the members of the 2nd triumvirate

46. Marcus Antonius (Marc Antony) Octavian Marcus Aemilius Lepidus

47. What does the word “Punic” mean

48. Phoenicians

49. He was the first lower class citizen to hold a high office in the Roman Republic

50. Gaius Marius

51. This member of the 2nd triumvirate became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire

52. Octavian

53. What were some of Caesar’s accomplishments

54. Redistributed state lands founded new colonies gave land to ex-soldiers built roads and buildings drained marshes provided jobs to thousands