Senate, People, and Magistrates (Senatus Populusque Romanus)
Roman government changed from kingship to republic and later to imperial rule. In the Republic, assemblies elected magistrates, consuls led the state and armies, and the Senate supplied experienced counsel, though citizenship and political power remained unequal.
Grades 6–8. Places and stories.
How it connects
Modern republics inherited Roman civic vocabulary, offices, architecture, and legal ideas. A Christian judgment values ordered liberty and the common good while rejecting slavery, corruption, and the idea that power makes an act just.
Latin words that go with this card: senatus, consul, civis, lex, imperator, curia.