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What is Tripartite?
The three branch government in Rome
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Who is Cincinnatus?
A farmer who became a Roman dictator in 458 BC
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What are Tribunes?
Were elected by the Plebeian Assembly
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What is 6,000 soldiers?
Roman legions were made up of
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Who is Tiberius Gracchus?
Took office in in 113 B.C. and wanted to create farms for poor Romans
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What is Latin?
The Roman's language
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What is Etruscan?
The last three kings of Rome were
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What is Republic?
Government in which people elect leaders to govern them
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What is Phoenician?
The word Punic means
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Who is Lucius Sulla?
Became Consul in 88 B.C. and started a civil war with Marius
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What are Patricians?
The common people of Rome
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Who is Marius?
Was a good general, his soldiers were more loyal to him than to Rome
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What is the Roman Senate?
Had 300 members
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What is the Battle of Zama?
Scipio defeated Hannibal at
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Who is Romulus?
He is believed to have taken the throne in 753 B.C.
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What are Magistrates?
Elected officials in Rome, served one year terms
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Who is Sulla?
Entered into civil war with Marius
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What is Civic Duty?
Participation of the people in government
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Who is Tiberius Gracchus?
Killed in a riot
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Who is Cincinatus?
He defeated an enemy in 458 B.C. and then gave power back to the republic
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What are Judges?
The most powerful elected officials under the tripartite
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Who is Scipio?
Roman general that defeated Hannibal
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Who were the plebians?
The Assembly and Tribunes protected them
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Who is Gaius Marius?
Encouraged poor people to join the army by offering them land
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What are the Punic Wars?
Rome went to war three times between 264 and 146 B.C.in these wars
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