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| a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia. 2400 miles (3865 km) long; 1,145,000 sq. mi. (2,965,550 sq. km); greatest known depth 14,436 feet (4400 meters). |
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| the lands and peoples subject to the authority of ancient Rome. |
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| an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
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| the terms of peace imposed by ancient Rome on its dominions. |
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| the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. |
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| The business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce |
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| insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth. |
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| the Twelve Tables, the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc |
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| The Roman Republic is the period from the (perhaps apocryphal) overthrow of the last Roman king, Lucius Tarquinius, in 509 BC by the Roman nobility until the establishment of a permanent imperial dictatorship under Augustus (Octavian) Caesar in 27 BC. |
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