Chapter Five
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. Republic
A. A diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in
2. Paterfamilias
B. One of the common people
3. Plebeian
C. A serious infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans
4. Patrician
D. A group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority
5. Consul
E. A person who behaves in a tyrannical manner
6. New Testament
F. The male head of family or tribe
7. Clergy
G. In Christianity, ___ collectively
8. Triumvirate
H. The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles
9. Dictator
I. A person of refined upbringing and manners
10. Plague
J. A general and progressive increase in prices
11. Inflation
K. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch