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main inventions
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urban city planning, aqueducts, sewage system
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rome
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unified the western world
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importance of etruscans
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gives roman psyche based on violence, sacrificial blood; builders (engineers)
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mediterranean sea becomes
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a roman lake, empire
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how romans overthrow the etruscans
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with the help of defeated people
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etruscan rule led them to have
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a fear of kings
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2 main social divisions
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patricians (nobles)
plebeians (non-nobles) |
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Wars with Carthage are called the
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Punic Wars
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carthage background
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sailors, have sicily
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first punic war
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romans kick carthaginians out of sicily, sets rome and carthage on a collision course
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second punic war
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over spain
hannibal- top Carthaginian general (elephants) major battles cannae- worst roman defeat ever, hannibal traps the roman troops in a circle Zamma- Hannibal and Carthage is defeated |
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third punic war
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Rome destroys Carthage
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how the punic wars affected Rome
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gain (silver) money from spain, get an influx of slaves which causes the ex-soldiers to be out of work and want change
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______ and ______ figure out rome's problem and want to help (decline of the small farmer)
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Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
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the failure of Tiberius and Gaius shows that
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Rome is outgrowing its old system
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Marius
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realizes the army is key
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Sulla
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says he wants to restore the republic but he kills it; dictator
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Spartacus
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gladiator, his slave revolt is slaughtered for defying rome; almost won
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1st Triumvirate
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Pompey
Crassus Julius Caesar |
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Julius Caesar
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dictator for 10 years, problem isn't what he's doing but how he's doing it; Cassius Brutus
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2nd Triumvirate
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Octavian
Mark Antony want to avenge Caesars death struggle for power Octavian gets west, Antony east |
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Battle of ________ Octavian wins complete control of Rome
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Actium
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Octavian
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first emperor (hides it)
name changed to Caesar Augustus maintains control of the army |
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rome's golden age
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Pax Romana
starts with Caesar Augustus |
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first dynasty in Rome
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Julio-Claudians
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Tiberius
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Caesar's heir, kills germanicus
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Germanicus's son
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Caligula
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caligula
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family murdered, crazy, first openly emperor, first emperor assasignated
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basic fault of the roman judicial system
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no way to get rid of a bad emperor
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who typically kills the emperor
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Praetorian (royal guard)
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Claudius
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wife agrippina has him poisoned
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Niero
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agrippina's son
great fire (scapegoat christains) end of the dynasty |
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point of julio claudians
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bring us to a system ruled by emporers
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vespasian
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built the roman collusium
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Titus
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volcanic eruptions, pompeii and Herculaneum buried in ash; window into the past
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Nerva
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first of a string of 5 good emperors, pax romana rome prospers
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Trajen
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empire reaches max
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Hadrean
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actually sees the people (unifier)
diaspora- scatters the jews |
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Marcus Aurelius
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end of pax romana and golden age
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the roman empire
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moved civilization forward
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commadous
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vicious, fights as gladiator (people appalled)
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after septimius severus
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go into civil war, 26 emperors 50 years
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diocletian
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saves rome but at a price
divides rome into 2 then 4 parts runs the west |
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the _____ is on the rise and the _______ is on decline
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east, west
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constantine
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reunites rome
moves capital to Constantinople (istanbul) moving east |
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Theodocius
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empire is falling apart
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______________ _____________ finally take down rome
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barbarian tribes
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borders collapse
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western half overrun by tribal groups
the city of rome is sacked |
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rome's influences
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Law, latin
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