Historical Background Flashcards
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The Republic of Rome
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Magistrates: consuls, praetors, quaesters, tribunes, aediles
Assemblies: comitia centuriata, comitia curiata, comitia tributa (lex), concilium plebis (plebiscita)
Class Struggle: twelve tables enacted, tribunes, one plebeian consul, lex Hortensia
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The Empire and Later
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Augustus/Octavian as princeps with senate partnership
Diocletian as dominus, with the East/West divide
Constantine with the religion change and shift to the East
The law of citations, the West is overrun by the Visigoths
Justinian brings a revival of Roman culture and law