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11 Cards in this Set
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Consuls
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2 consuls
1 year term nominated by senate |
has power like the presedent in the united states.
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Etruscans
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drained marshes
writing-the greek alphabet could bild arches elected king |
most famous for there arches
and being very good at bilding. |
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Mediterranean Sea
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Rome fought carthage for control over the werstern part of the mediterranean sea.
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the thing they were fighting for during the punic wars.
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Senate/Sulla
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Senate-set up the republic
300 patricans for life. Sulla- restored order made senate strong weakend pleabians |
both start with S
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Tiber River
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Rome was bilt on tiber river
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what river is rome on?
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Gracchi
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Tiberius and gaius (brothers)
land reform to help small farmers- pleabians gave land to the poor plebains vrs. patucians civl war died sulla became dictator |
the brothers who gave land to the poor.
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Hadrians Wall
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Bilt by hadrian in britian
kept solders busy protection against celtecs |
the wall were they found the garbage dump.
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ptolemy
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Greek astronomer
new the earth was round. |
new earth was round wrong about everything else.
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Twelve Tables
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Laws of the republic
judge had to treat the pleabeians and patucians the same. |
no hint
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Pyrrhus
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Greek from sicily who fought romans
almost defeated romans but losses of solders were to great. pyrric victory= costly victory |
lost to many men
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Livy
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Pathictic writer
wrote history in rome wanted "simple ways" of fouding romans. |
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