FINAL HIS 1001 Flashcards
Romulus & Remus
Are sent down a river to evade death as babies ,then adopted by a she wolf who had just lost her children and she then proceeds to raise them.As they get older they are then reunited with humans they end up deplacing their uncle reensate their grandfather.Romulus kills his brother remus. Romulus the first king of rome
Feral
Term for raised wild
Etrusacnas
A group north to the romans much larger group then romans ( one of their members becomes king)
Tarquin “the proud”
Last etrusacan king His son rapes a roman noble women in which the people become to infrutited by this act that they rose up they kicked out the king aand kicked out kingship all together replacing it with the republic(rule of the people)
Legion
Group of 5,000 soldiers and fought in closed formation
Punic wars (264-146)
pit rome against carthage divided into 3 wars
HANNIBAL
military figure was sent to be sentenced in rome for rebbelling agasint them he refused and started war instead defeating half the roman saoildwrs
Pater Familias
The patroarch of any given roman family (meaning father of the family)
Mos Maiorum
The religious code of the ancient romans ( way of the ancestors)
Vestal Virgin
They were the preistes of the goddess of vesta given to the temple very important for sacricfces. Could retire at 37
Pontifex Maximus
The high priest of rome in charge of all the other priest first war fought over sicily
*Latifundia -
Roman rural estates ( plantations) the slaves were farmers worked from sun up till sun down and at night after sundown they are locked up. Lead very difficult lives
Vilicus/ Vilivia - Overseer of the slaves ( usually a slave themselves) Not uncommon for them to earn their freedom .
Augures
Priest dedicated to a specific type of divination ( was to get answers from the spirit world through flights of birds)
Men for Sacred Action
These men help in the temperial of jupiter a library scared librarians ( filled with sivilin books written out answers to prophecy
Fetials-
were in charge of declaring peace and war