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12 Cards in this Set
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Tiber river |
a river in Italy |
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Republic |
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives |
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pelebians |
any tribe or clan without advisers to the King |
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patrians |
is a term that originally referred to a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome. |
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magistrates |
a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law |
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consuls |
an official appointed by a government to live in a foreign city |
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Roman senate |
a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic |
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Roman assembely |
were institutions in ancientRome |
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veto |
a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body. |
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checks and balences |
counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system |
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Punic wars |
were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage |
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gladiators |
an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire |
