Events - Midterm Flashcards
what was Rome like under Sulla?
lots of destruction, like a bloodbath
81 BCE
Sulla was made a dictator and starts to redraft the constitution (which aimed at returning power to the Senate and removing the Plebs)
79 BCE
Sulla resigned and retired to Campagnia
4000 BCE
appearance of agriculture
2000 BCE
copper tools
1400 BCE
Mycenean pottery seen at Sardinia, shows evidence of long distance trade across Italy
1200 BCE
destruction happens throughout the eastern Mediterranean - social stratification falls apart, trade networks collapse
post 1200 BCE
Venetian trade throughout the Mediterranean, people grouped back together in towns and cities,
10th century
Phoenicians sailed in the Mediterranean for trade and Carthage becomes Rome’s biggest enemy
2000-1000 BCE
Bronze Age
900-700 BCE
Iron Age
8th-7th century
Greeks founded a string of settlements in Sicily and southern Italy
1200 BCE
fall of Mycenean palaces in Greece
1000 BCE
Phoenician traders
900 BCE
Villanovan culture
825 BCE
foundation of Carthage
800 BCE
identification of Etruscan culture
775 BCE
Greeks and Phoenicians at Cumae
753 BCE
traditional date for the foundation of Rome
750 BCE
small settlements start to pop up on the 7 hills of Rome, especially the Palatine hill
725 BCE
villages on Palatine, Esquiline, and Caelian hills become unified as Rome
625 BCE
Etruscan pottery and houses with tiled roofs suggest that the Etruscans are moving into Rome, the Forum gets drained using the cloaca maxima
550 BCE
the Senate House (Curia Hostilia) gets built
525 BCE
Sacred Way, Regia (king’s house), and the Jupiter Optimus Maximus temple are built
