The Roman Empire

1. A military formation that was made up of foot soldiers massed together with shields joined and spears overlapping.
3. Way One of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.
5. Stop.
7. One of two main branches of the later Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. These nomadic tribes were among the Germanic peoples who spread through the late Roman Empire during Late Antiquity or the Migration Period.
8. Government by a ruler with unlimited power.
11. Long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
13. Everyday language spoken by Romans.
14. Supreme authority.
15. Common citizen of the Roman Empire.
16. Romanum A rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome.
17. A series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.
18. Elected representatives govern, as in the United States.
19. An official, chosen from the patrician class who carried out the laws of Rome.
20. Modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Latium.

1. Title of great honor that allowed its holder to speak first in senate debates.
2. Warriors who fought in arena's with swords, daggers, and spears.
4. Soldiers that could not always be trusted to hold their ground in battle.
6. French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese.
9. A word that comes from the Latin patres, or "fathers."
10. A term that means "handful."
12. Known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379 to 395.
21. A title shared by elected officials in the Roman Republic.
22. An assembly or a council of citizens having the highest deliberative and legislative functions in a government.