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  • Review
  • Geography
  • Difference from Greeks
  • Romulus and Remus
  • Influences
  • Greeks
  • Carthaginians
  • Latins

2
  • Rome Basics
  • Plebeians (80-95), Patricians (5-15), Slaves
  • Government
  • Senate, Consuls, emergency dictator (6 months
    maxfasces)
  • Two phases
  • Republic (509-30BCE)
  • Empire (30 BCE-476 CE)

3
  • How does Rome get powerful/or grow?

4
  • How does Rome get powerful/or grow?
  • Gradual conquestsmall wars
  • Most ancient civ.s kill and enslave people they
    conquer Not Romans
  • Defeated enemies become alliestrade with Romans.
  • Leave the defeated state intact (defeated people
    pleased)
  • Defeated get to pay a tax but get Roman
    Citizenship-(another benefit)
  • Romans only want one thingtroops
  • So whatRomans create an empire without having to
    rule it.

5
  • How do they became great?
  • Beat the Carthaginians (1st, 2nd 3rd Punic
    warsHannibal, etc. Ended in 146 BCE)
  • Changed how armies created(soldiers loyalty
    towhom change in _at_100BCE)
  • Gives rise to in-fighting and the rise of
    military leadersthe Republic is in danger.

6
  • Julius Caesar (end 44 BCE)

7
  • Julius Caesar (end 44BCE)
  • Generalhelps create the Triumvirate (3 people)
    60 BCE
  • Given a big command in Gaul (France) and does
    well
  • First to write home what he was doingGaulich
    wars (popular)
  • One of the Triumvirate dies and Caesar takes
    advantages.
  • Makes himself dictator in 45. BCEacts like a
    king
  • Ides of March 44 BCE he was stabbed to death
  • Results Another battle between Caesars
    right-hand man Mark Anthony and a young guy
    called Octavian (heir to Caesar). Octavian wins
    (beats Anthony and Queen of Egypt Cleopatra in 31
    BCE.

8
  • Octavian/Augustus (31-14 BCE)
  • Restored the RepublicNot!!
  • The revered one
  • Standing army of 300,000 (US today has 160,000 in
    Iraq)
  • People happy that all the civil wars over they
    like Augustus
  • Pax Romana
  • Golden Age of Rome
  • Literature (Vergilpoet), Cicero (rhetoric)
  • Architecture--Roman Forum

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