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Where was the city of rome founded? Why was it strategically located there? |
Lower valley of the Tiber river located for control of the italian peninsula and access to the mediterranean sea |
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Who were the etruscans? What were theey experts at? |
People from Tuscany METALLURGY: town building and city planning |
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Greeks were masters at |
philosophy and arts |
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Phoenicians brought theri |
alphabet and commerical and maritime skills |
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Romans absorbed these things from the etruscans |
urban planning,chariot racing, the toga, bronze and gold crafting an THE ARCH |
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The city had |
tilted roofs stone foundations they drained the forum area and made it into a city centre |
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How did entruscans contrinute to rome |
writing, public buildings, new systems for politics, social organization, military |
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Beginning of the roman republic |
Latins(romans) overthrow the entruscans(the current rulers) the senate is created tension between patricians (rich ) and plebians (lower class) |
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the twelve tablea |
rights and representation are granted to the plebians |
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res publica |
government of the ppl |
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patricians(beyonce-partition) |
rich , large landowners |
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Plebeiand |
farmers, small landowners |
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rome took control of italian peninsula,wanted to take control of meditranean distrusted the phonecians and rivalry with carthage(strongholdof the phoenicians howd it end? |
destruction of carthage, rome assumed naval and commerical leadership of the mediteranenan called it : mare nostrum (our sea) |
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Roman army |
Citizens perform 2 year military service military actually becomes a job/profession since they normally were in the army for so many years, it allowed the non romans to gain roman citizenship |
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LArge plantations |
Latifundia( whoch are farmed by slaves) |
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Ceasers conqeurs gaul then comes back to itally crosses the rubicon without permission from the senate -- act of war |
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What did ceaser do as a leader |
reform laws regulate taxation reduced debts sends many unemployed to work in colonies citizenship to non italians |
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who was romes 1st official emporer? |
octavian also known as augustus (julius's grand son) competed with mark antony -- civil wars |
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what did cleopatra want? who was she allianced with? |
she wanted to unite the eastern and westerns portions of rome empire & to govern a vast roman state. she was allianced with mark antony bought octavian won and she didnt get what she wanted |
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pax romana |
roman peace |
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amphorae |
s a two-handled pot with a neck that is considerably narrower than the body. It was used for the storage of liquids and solids such as grain. |
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aqueducts |
tconstructed to convery water (modern day pipes) |
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who wrote 142 books that are the most reliable source of info about anciet rome? |
titus livius commanded to write a history of rome by augustus |
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oratory |
public speaking |
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epistles |
letters |
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who wrote a **** ton of letters and speeches |
marcus tullius cicero |
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didactic prose |
having the purpose of insturcting or informing (geographies, encyclopedia,biographs,instuctions) |
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On the nature of things |
Written by Lucretius promoted a stoics acceptance of death described the world in purely physcial terms denied existence of gods or supernatural things |
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On tranquility of the mind |
written by seneca, stoic essays achieve peace of mind by avoiding burdensome responsibilites. |
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stoic reflections known as meditations |
marcus aurelius |
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Virgil wrote "AEINEID" |
epic poem telling the story of the mythical funder of rome named Aeneas. Talks about his journey from troy to tome and his love affair with a carthaginian princess )dido) and the establishment of the roman state |
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what does the aenied promote?
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stoic thought because he leaves his love dido for the sake of the roman state( personal fulfillment |
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ECLOGUES |
pastoral poems; that glorify the natural landscape and its rustic inhabitants. Virgil |
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carpe diem |
written by horace "decant ur wine" |
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catallus |
love,friendship,sex : poems to lesbia |
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ovid |
the metamorpheses :stories about supernatural transformation the art of love-mysogynistic |
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satire poets |
juvenal and horace |
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concrete was used for large scale construction |
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other building materials: |
brick, rubbles, stone, marble,tile,bronze,plaster |
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vitruvius |
ten books on architecture roman architect |
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amphitheatres seated lots of spectators |
colloseum, circus maximus chariot races,mock sea battles, gladitorial contests |
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many of the population were impovrsihed and were compensated by... |
breads and circuses |
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The pantheon |
rome |
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who wrote tranquility of the mind?what was it about and who also wrote about this particular subject? |
seneca,on stoicism and marcus aurelieus |
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the art of love was written by |
ovid, mysoginistic |
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this poet gained the friendship of virgil for his satirical poetry |
horace |
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waht is satire? |
uses humour tp denounce human imperfection (mocking) |
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famous architect |
vitruviusl; ten books on architecture |
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2 mentioned Roman amphitheatres are: |
circus maximus and the colloseum (rome) used for entertainment |
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Pantheon symmetrical location? |
cube with the dome rome |
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Maison Carree location? |
in nimmes france |
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Baths centered on a _______ |
basillica tended to physical needs relaxation place similar to spas |
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the arch of titus |
commemorates the final days of the jewish wars |
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mosaics were preserved because? |
the volcano that destroyed the two cities' lava |
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where were mosaics and frescoes most found, why? |
pompeii and herculaneum because the richer romans lived there, |
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trompe loiel |
fool the eye ` |
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frescoes gave a ______ impression |
emperical perspective (3d) |
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still life with eggs and thrushes |
fresco itay,pompeii |
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light and dark |
chiaroscuro |
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mosaic woman portrait |
signiificant because of illusionism pompeii italy |
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mithra |
god of life |
