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Livy |
64 or 59 -17 CE Historian, Ab Urbe Condita History of Rome, including its founding (Myths) |
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Roman Monarchy |
753-509 Ended with the Rape of Lucretia 7 Kings (Suspiciously long reigns) |
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Tullus Hostilius |
3rd King of Rome, Warlike |
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Servius Tullius |
6th century Wide ranging reforms, created the prosperity classes |
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King Tarquin Superbus (the Proud) |
509 Rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius |
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Lars Poresenna |
Attacked Rome to put Tarquin back in power Gauius Mucius thrusts hand in fire and peace ensues Myth to cover up the fact that he may have actually conquered Rome |
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Plebian Aristocracy |
494-287 BCE Plebs gradually win more rights by refusing to serve in the army Debt bondage abolished in 4th century Creation of Tribune of Plebs: defends interests of the people |
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Laws of the Twelve Tables |
451 BCE. Forced aristocracy to keep written laws, may have been influenced by the laws of Solon |
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Mixed Constitution |
Two consuls, 12 lictors (bodyguards) each who had fasces |
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Curule Magistrates and Curule Aedile |
1. consuls 2. oversaw the food supply, markets, public games, tow of the four had to be plebs |
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Praetor Peregrinus |
Deals with foreigners |
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Praetor Urbanus |
Deals with city affairs, Roman affairs |
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Quaestors |
financial and archival responsibilities |
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Comitia Centuriata |
Main legislative body, but it lacked the power to propose ideas, system of seats based on classes |
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Equites |
Top class, would vote first Voting stops when a majority is achieved |
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Battle of Lake Regillus |
ca. 496 Battle between the Latins and the Romans |
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Capture of Veii |
396 Etruscan city, capture doubled Rome's holdings |
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Battle of Allia |
390 Black day, defeated by the encroaching Gauls Sacked Rome itself The people fled to Capitaline Hill - the temple of Jupiter Geese warned of an attack |
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Roman Manipular Legion |
Idea borrowed from the Gauls, abandoned the Phalanx, Everyone served at their own expense |
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Legion |
Light Infantry: Velites (poor men) Heavy Infantry: Hastati, Principes, Triarii Equites: Cavalry |
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Maniples Formations |
Units of the Legion,checker board arrangement, more flexible then Phalanx |
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First Sammite War |
343-341 BCE. Confederation of Tribes, attack the town of Capula and ask Rome for help Rome assists despite the treaty with Sammities |
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Latin War |
340-338 BCE. Latins tried to break free of the Alliance Rome dissolves old Latin league and create new alliances that connect each township to Rome individually |
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Third Sammite War |
298-290 BCE. Sam. form an alliance with the Etruscans Battle of Sentinum 295 |
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Gulf of Tarantum |
Romans not supposed to sail past the bay |
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Polybius |
ca. 200-118
Greek Historian taken as a Roman political hostage, wrote about Rome and the Hellenistic states |
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First Punic War |
264-241 Romans couldn't allow Carthage to have all of Sicily, Rome built a fleet to challenge Carthage Invented the corvus bridge to connect two ships and allow for easier boarding Battles at Mylae, Prepana |
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Hamilcar |
Carthaginian general, effective, brings the conflict to a stalemate, after the first war he goes to Spain to start and new branch of the Carthaginian empire |
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Battle of Aegates Island |
241, Rome uses new fleet to defeat Carthage, Carthage made to leave Sicily, after which point Carthage mercenaries revolt |
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Second Punic War |
218-201 Traumatic for the Romans, when Carthage leaves a city then Rome takes it back, leaves Hanibal chasing his tail, Hannibal trapped in Southern Italy |
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Third Punic War |
149-146 Cato the Elder rallying to destroy Carthage Carthage attacked by a neighbour, an ally of Rome |
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Second Macedeonian War |
200 Rome felt stabbed in the back by Philip while they were fighting the Carthaginians, ends with the proclamation of all greek free after battle of Cynscephalae |
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Gracchi Brothers |
Tiberius and Gauis Gracchus Uses multiple vetos, violating the way of the elders (unofficial rules), the first time violence happens because of politics Deaths mark the beginning of the Late Republic |
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Battle of Arausio |
105 Catastrophic defeat for the Romans in attempt to halt advance of Germanic tribes |
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Battle of Aquae Sextiae |
102 Tribes are defeated following the defeat at Arausio, may have been the when the army was reformed into a proffesional army (Gauis) |
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Mithridates King of Pontus |
Drives Sulla out of Rome, 138 BCE, Sulla then goes to the army and asks them to save his honour, mith then flees Rome |
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Proscription Lists |
Lists of enemies who can be killed by anyone for profit |
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Revolt of Spartacus |
73-71 BCE. Fleeing gladiators attract other slaves to their cause, flee to Southern Italy, revolt is put down by Licinius Crassus, Spartacus is killed in battle |
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General Pompeius Magnus |
Given a command to fight against Pirates |
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First Triumvante |
60-53 BCE Crassus, Pompei and Caesar, a private arrangement to support each other politically |
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Gallic Wars |
58-51 BCE. Caesar writes his own accounts of the war, Gaul is conquered for the Roman Republic |
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Battle of Carrhae |
Death of Crassus |
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Civil War |
49 Crossing the River Rubicon Pompei is defeated in Greece at the Battle of Pharasalus, then flees to Egypt where he is killed |
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Ides of March |
March 15th 44 BCE. Caesar is assasinated in the senate |
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Second Triumvirante |
43 Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus |
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Battle of Philippi |
42 BCE. Crassus and Brutus lose to the triumvante |
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Donations of Alexandria |
34 BCE. Will of Marc Antony shows his intent to give Rome to his children by Cleopatra |
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Battle of Actium |
31 BCE. Sea Battle, Marc Antony and Cleopatra are defeated and flee back to Alexandria, followed by the conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE. |
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Romanization |
majority of the empire didn't speak Latin, did not forbid foreign cultures, content to leave the local administration in place |
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Early Imperial Period |
27 BCE. - 235 CE. Augustus dies in 14 CE and he names an heir thus it becomes a dynasty |
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Augustus Caesar |
Pontifex Maximus, made reforms that aided status of women with the "Law of Three Children" New divisions of the proviences, into imperial and senatorial |
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Julio-Claudian Dynasty |
Augustus Tiberius (Step son) Caligula Claudius Nero |
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Sejanus |
Gains the trust of Tiberius and convinces him to retire to the island of Cypri Tries to take steps to be Tiberius natural sucssesor |
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Caligula |
r. 37-41 Possibly mentally ill Assasinated by the praetorians in 41 |
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Limes |
word used by scholars to define the defense system on the boarders of the empire |
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Claudius |
r. 41-54 CE. Considered a weak emperor for following the advice of women Conquest of Britannia, started by 43. May have been posioned by Aggripina to advance her son Nero |
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Nero |
r. 54-68 |
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Revolt of Bouddica |
60. CE. Resistence of the northern tribes to the spread of Roman Empire, battle of Londinium |
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First Jewish Revolt |
66-73 CE. Sent one of the best generals; Vespisian |
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The Five Good Emperors |
Nerva Trajan Hadrian Antonius Commodus |
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Bar Kakhba Revolt |
132-136 Seems to have been a war of extermination Have bases in caves Jewish peoples |
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Commodus |
Debasement of the silver coinage |
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Pertinax |
When he was killed in March 193, the empire is auctioned off by the soldiers, between Julianus or Suleguis, this is not well received in the Proveinces |
