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14 Cards in this Set
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Latium |
From where Rome developed itself |
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Paterfamilias |
Power of the father; execute laws; punishment; religious leadership |
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Patricians |
Upper part of society (army, officers, generals, emperors) |
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Plebs |
Middle and lower class |
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Clientage |
Mutual obligations between patron and client; patron has to give legal and physical protection; client gives political support, body as a soldier and loyalty |
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Consul |
Replaced monarchy; consists of two men chosen by the senate; prevents one from becoming a tyrant; 1 year term; after that a part of the senate |
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Senate |
Born into a family that can become a senate; it's a lifelong job |
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Dictator |
Gets selected during a crisis; for 6 months; someone who has all the power --> general fear of too much power in a person |
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Punic Wars |
1. Rome wins the first and takes over control of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica 2. Carthage becomes a client state of Rome 3. Rome is established as the leaders and no one questions that |
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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus land reforms |
Take land from the wealthy and give it to the poor or the soldiers; give citizenship to all roman allies; were populares (appealing to emotions/ opimates: from upper class) |
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Lucius Sulla |
Dictator that brings law and order back; made the proscription (list of enemies); resigned in the end |
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1st Triumvirate |
Pompey, Caesar, Crassus; part of illegal organization; Caesar commits treason by not giving to his command; is the last one standing after the civil war |
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Julius Caesar |
Was a populare; afraid of a dictatorship but made himself dictator for life; was killed in the "Ides of march" bc people tried to get back to the roman republic |
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2nd Triumvirate |
Mark Anthony, Octavian, Lepidus; wanted to take conspirators to justice; no return to republic; Anthony and cleopatra killed in the civil war |
