In the English language, the word nigger is an ethnic slur, usually directed at black people. The word originated as a neutral term referring to people with black skin, as a variation of the Spanish and Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger (black).tymologically, negro, noir, negre, nÃ¨gre and nigger ultimately derive from, nigrum the stem of The latin (niger) (black [pronounced] ËniÉ¡er, which in every other grammatical, case grammatical, gender and grammatical number besides nominative masculine, singular is- , nigr the r is). trilled
The Senate &. the People of Rome. The letters SPQR stood for Senatus Populus Que Romanusa - the Senate and the People of Rome. After defeating Tarquin, the last Roman king, the people started a new type of government, a republic. A republic is a type of government whereby people elect officials to represent them in government.
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (163/162 BC- 133 BC) was an important Roman Tribune of the plebs. He proposed a reform called the Lex Sempronia Agraria. This was meant to reduce the number of poor and homeless people by allowing the rich to have only a certain amount of land. The rest of the land would be given to homeless veterans of the Roman military.