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12 Cards in this Set
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The Emergence of Rome
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Tiber River
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The Greeks, Etruscans, and Early Rome
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Built Rome
Influenced almost all of Rome |
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The Roman Republic
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Consuls - 2 chosen annually
-Imperium - the right to command Praetors - governed when consuls were away Proconsuls and Propraetors - governed outside of Rome *Special officials dictators - helps restore ~ 6 months then retire censors - 5 years, census, funding public works, moral police Roman senate - 300 men served for life Centurate Assembly - passed all laws |
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The Roman Republic (cont.)
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Patricians - Aristocratic governing class
Plebians - all other citizens Tribunes of the plebs - protected plebs from patricians Council of the plebs - passed laws only for plebs Plebiscita - applied to both classes |
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Roman Conquest of Italy
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Romans began to expand because of their power
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Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean
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The First Punic War - Rome interaction into carthage
-Rome developed a strong navy and defeated carthage. Second Punic War - conquest into Spain -Hannibal - general of carthage -Quintus Fabius Maximus -Battle of Zama - Hannibal kills himself Third Punic War - Scipio Africanus the Younger |
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The Growth of Slavery
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Slaves for conquest
Agricultural works of Latifundia's Spartacus leads 70k slaves and defeats 2 roman armies |
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Roman Family
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Paterfamilian - Head of the family
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decline and fall of the roman republic
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senate - 300 serving for life
land problems - small farms couldn't compete -forced to sell their land army - only land owners could serve passed a law that gave land to plebs |
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Marius, the social war and sulla
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Marius - council of plebs gives him command in Africa
Military reforms - dropped property Italian Social War Lucius cornelius sulla -plebs gave sulls's power to marius -sulla comes back and takes his power back -then sulla is defeated |
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The Collapse of the republic
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civil wars - 50 years
First triumvirate crassus - general under sulla - put down sparticus pompey - fought under sulla - command in spain julis Caesar - conquest of Gual crassus killed in battle in syria Caesar crosses the rubicon river Octavian is appointed |
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After Assassination of Caesar
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Second triumvirate - octavian, marc antony, and lepidus
Octavian rules W marc rules E Marc divorces octavia, allied with cleopatra Marc and Cleopatra return to Egypt |
