Important+Rome+Terms

__**Important Roman Terms**__

**Populares:** supporters of the people(Gracchus brothers, Marius)

**Optimates:** the aristocrats (Sulla)

**Centurion:** upper ranks of the military

**Anthropocence:** the era of men.

**Patricians:** rich, noble, old money men of Rome.

**Plebeians:** poorer men of Rome, less respected.

**Pax Deorum:** convent between the gods and the roman state.

**Cursus Horum:** the course of becoming a council(have to be 42 years of age, have to go through every level of the government, ect.) **Atrium:** rectangular courtyard w/ open skylight and rain water for drinking/ washing, a dining room, kitchen, private bath **Tenate Farmers:** cultivated plots of land in return for a portion of their crop **Pax Romana:** The safety and stability guaranteed by Roman might

**Tribune** office to represent Plebeians, they had power to veto any action of assembly that threatned lower orders They didn’t usually veto anything one of them slightly disagreed with because nothing would get accomplished SPQR=senatus populusque romanus=senate and people of Rome (what Rome identified itself as)
 * elected only by Pleabiens to protect them, 10 tribunes
 * sacrosanct – unspeakable crime to hurt them, they’re untouchable
 * could investigate fraud


 * Praetorian Guard: ** An Elite force, which was at the Emperors disposal located in Rome. It was later the deciding body of the Roman leaders.