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  1. 1. Romana The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
  2. 3. In ancient Rome, an official elected by the plebeians to protect their rights.
  3. 6. Under the Roman Republic, one of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic.
  4. 9. A political regime dominated by three powerful individuals.
  5. 10. Tables The earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc.
  6. 12. of Rome The process of decline in the Western Roman Empire during which it lost the strength to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. The date is commonly listed as 476 AD.
  7. 14. A Roman emperor who ruled from AD 306 to 337. He is known for legalizing Christianity in the Roman Empire.
  8. 15. The first Roman emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
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  1. 2. An artificial channel for conveying water, typically elevated.
  2. 4. A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
  3. 5. Wars A series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC.
  4. 6. An elliptical amphitheater in the center of the city of Rome, Italy. It was the largest amphitheater ever built and was completed around 80 AD under the Roman Empire.
  5. 7. In ancient Rome, the senate was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. It was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls, and later by the censors.
  6. 8. Roman Empire Also known as the Byzantine Empire, this was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople.
  7. 11. Roman Empire The Western Roman Empire comprises the western provinces of the Roman Empire at any time during which they were administered by a separate independent imperial court, coequal with that administering the eastern half.
  8. 13. Caesar A Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.