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37 Cards in this Set
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Tiberius Gracchus
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1. Patrician who ran for tribune (poor people leader) because he was raised by Greek slaves.
2. Ran on the Land Law Bill. |
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Land Law Bill
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1. Gave land to the poor who were living in Rome.
2. Was supposed to be state owned land. |
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Marius
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1. General who allowed people to join army even if they didn't own land.
2. Organized men into Legions, Cohorts, and Centurions. |
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Legions
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groups of 6,000 soldiers
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Centurions
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groups of 100 soldiers
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Sulla
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1. Became famous from Roman civil war (only lasted a year)
2. Was sent to fight Mithradates of Pontus |
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Mithradates
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1. took advantage of Roman Civil War and gobbled up unoccupied Roman territory.
2. Sulla beat him, but didn't capture/kill him. |
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Proscription List
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Sulla's list of enemies of the state (death list)
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Pompey
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Lackey of Sulla
Sulla gave him the name Pompey the Great. |
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Serorius
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General in Spain
Enemy of Sulla Barbarian Army Pompey couldn't defeat, but he died so Pompey lucked out |
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Crassus
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richest man in the world
friend of sulla's |
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Cicero
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Great orator
senator |
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Julius CAESAR
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poor patrician, but great orator
made deal with Crassus (for money) and was governor of Spain led to the first triumvirate (Caesar - Orator, Crassus - money, and Pompey - army) |
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Julia
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Caesar's daughter
married pompey so she could tell caesar what was going on while he was in Gaul |
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Octavian
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Caesar's grand-nephew
took Caesar's name became part of second triumvirate (Octavian, Marc Antony, and Lepidus) Later known as Augustus Caesar (first emporer) |
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Genuis
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similar to a soul, lived on after death of the body
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Praetorian Guard
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6000 men in Rome and 3000 in other cities
basically the bodyguards and police for the emporer Got paid twice as much and only had to serve for 16 years |
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Tiberius
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took over for after Augustus Caesar
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Sejanus
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"friend" of Tiberius
when Tiberius left for an island he starting purging the upper class and then had a plan to do away with Tiberius Tiberius came back and killed him and his followers |
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Gaius Caligula
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took over after Tiberius
Tiberius' grandson got sick and then went crazy |
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Claudius
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Caligula's uncle
Praetorian Guard overthrew Caligula and placed Claudius as emporer Killed by wife so her son Nero could take throne |
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Nero
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took over after Claudius
Was weird, had his other killed |
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Jesus
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born during the reign of Augustus
followers claimed he was the messiah |
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Messiah
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basically means someone (the messiah) who was sent to lead a people back to victory
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pontius PILATE
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procurator of Judea (tax collector)
killed Jesus |
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Vespasian
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next big emporer after Nero
good guy, but tough time |
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Adoptive Succession
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each Emperor picks the next one from his possie that was doing a good job
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Titus
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son of Vespasian
sent to take on Jews, killed a lot and won took over emperorship from Vespasian |
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Domitian
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Titus' younger brother
took over after Titus killed by wife (Praetorian Guard) |
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Mt Vesuvius
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volcano that erupted and buried Pompeii
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Ovid
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wrote "The Art of Love"
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Virgil
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government sponsored writer
wrote "Aeneid" |
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Aeneid
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wrote by Virgil
fake history of Romans going back to the Trojan War (Romans really didn't go back very far and they were embarrassed about this) |
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the 5 good emperors
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Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius
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Pliny the Younger
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he was a raider (figured out where corruption was happening for Trajan)
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Hadrian
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responsible for Israel/Palestinian problem
killed off jews in Jerusalem so none remained and then Islam grew up in the area |
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Meditations
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book written by Marcus Aurelius
diary of sorts |
