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Plebeians |
a member of the lower social classes. |
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Patricians |
an aristocrat or nobleman. |
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Phalanx |
a body of troops or police officers, standing or moving in close formation. |
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Senators |
a member of a senate. |
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Tribunes |
an official in ancient Rome chosen by the plebeians to protect their interests. |
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consul |
an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city and protect and promote the government's citizens and interests there. |
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Pax Romana |
a period of piece in rome |
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The Colosseum |
Monumental 3-tiered Roman amphitheater once used for gladiatorial games |
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Xerxes |
the fourth king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire. He ruled from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC at the hands of Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard. |
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Byzantine Empire |
the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. |
