| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Republic | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| Representative | a person who represents others |
| forum | a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece |
| senate | a group of 300 men elected to govern Rome |
| consul | a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country |
| patrician | a person of refined upbringing and manners |
| plebeian | of the common people of ancient Rome |
| tribune | the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne |
| Twelve tables | the laws of plebians |
| Hannibal | a great carthaginian general during the second punic war; successfully invaded italy, but failed to conquer rome; finally defeated at the battle of zama |
| Scipio | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC) |
| Carthage | an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis, ancient Roman city found in Tunisia |
| Zama | the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War |
| Punic Wars | who-romas, carthaginians; when-264-146 b.c.; where-rome and carthage; why-rome conquered land, farmers lost land which led to riots, people fleed to rome, greed overcame republic |
| Livy | Roman historian whose history of Rome filled 142 volumes (of which only 35 survive) including the earliest history of the war with Hannibal (59 BC to AD 17) |
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