roman terms
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analisabancharan on November 3, 2010
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| rome republic |  power rests w/ citizens who elect leaders |
| roman patrician | wealthy landowner |
| roman plebeian | Belonging to the common people |
| imperator | emperor |
| christianity | a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior |
| clergy | clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) |
| laity | everyone except the clergy |
| hannibal | a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River |
| julius caesar | conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC) |
| augustus | Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC |
| pax romana | the Roman peace |
| twelve tables | Rome's first code of laws; adopted in 450 B.C. |
| law of nations | the body of laws governing relations between nations |
| virgil | a Roman poet |
| jesus | Religious leader and founder of Christianity |
| new testament | the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other Epistles, and Revelation |
| constantine | a walled city in northeastern Algeria east of Algiers |
| rome | the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church |
| carthage | an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis |
| asia minor | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
| constantinope | as trade revived in the late middle ages this city located at the entrance to the black sea became the terminus for caravans and ships |
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