- Cicero: A famous Roman States man.
- Conflict of the orders: When the plebians rebelled against the patricians.
- consul: One of two cheif leaders in the Roman republic.
- Council of plebs: It was a plebian elected law making body that made laws for the plebians.
- Cuniculus: An irrigation system invented by the Etruscans.
- Etruscans: Inhabitants of Etruria, A land just North of the Palatine.
- gladiator: A person trained to fight another person to the death for public entertainment.
- Latins: People from the ancient country of Latium, an area what is now the country of Italy.
- Latium Plain: Where Rome flourished.
- Palatine: One of the seven hills in ancient Rome.
- patrician: Power in the early republic belonged to them and they were rich men.
- plebian: The majority of Romans and they had no say in government.
- Republic: Is a form of government with elected leaders.
- senate: A group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Roman republic.
- Sicily: The Romans established a town there.
- Tiber River: The river that was next to the settlement.
- tribune: An official of the Roman Republic elected by plebians to protect their rights.
- Twelve Tables: The laws of the partricians were written down on twelve stone tablets.
- veto: To refuse to approve proposals of government made by the senate.