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19 Cards in this Set
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Cicero |
Tried to limit the power of generals |
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Cincinnatus |
First dictator of Rome but gave up power before his term ended |
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Gracchus Brothers |
Tried to give farm land to the plebeians. People didn't like this so they assassinated. |
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Hannibal |
Tried to attack Rome from the North during the 2nd Punic war |
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Julius Caesar |
He was a powerful military leader and dictator |
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Marc Antony |
Came after Julius and tried to avenge him |
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Marius and Sulla |
Both having military strength they fought for power in the streets of Rome |
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Octavian |
Came after Julius and became the first emperor of Rome named "Augustus" |
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Pompey |
One of Julius's friends |
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Romulus and Remus |
The mythological founders of Rome |
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Spartacus |
A slave that lead a huge slave revolt |
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Geography |
Near the Tiber River, on a hill, in surrounded by mountains |
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Original Romans |
Latins |
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Influences |
Etruscan and Greeks |
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Early government |
Rebublic |
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Social Classes |
Patricians and Plebians |
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Distributions of right and privleges |
The patricians had all the rights |
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Struggle to equality |
Battle of the Orders |
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Parts of the government and who held them |
Magistrates- Patricians Senate- Patricians Assemblies and Tribunes- Plebians |
