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Republic Founding

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-Begins in 509 BC with the ousting of Tarquin the Younger by Lucius Junius Brutus
-Brutus and Collatinus established a Republic
-Tarquin tried 3 times to take Rome back with the Etruscans

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The 3 Classes

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-Patrician (nobleborns)
-Equites (wealthy plebs, commonly merchants)
-Plebians (commoners)

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Initial Government Structure

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(in order of most to least powerful)
-2 consuls
-300 to 600 members of the senate + 10 Tribunes
-comitae (citizen’s assembly)

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Consuls

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-Most powerful and ran the government and military
-Nominated by the Senate, elected by the people
-Patricians only later changed to one patrician and one plebian
-One year terms
-Could veto one another
-Together with the Senate, could appoint a dictator in an emergency
-were in charge in alternating months (starting with who got the most votes)
-minimum age 42
-possessed imperium (the power to command armies)
-could only be elected every 10 years

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Dictator

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-supreme power
-6 month term
-elected in emergencies by the consuls and senate

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Senate

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-300-600 men
-initially patricians only (later allowed plebs)
-Served for life
-Advised the consuls
-suggested laws

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Comitiae (people’s council)

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-several types of assemblies, electing multiple different officials
-plebeian assemblies elected tribunes
-military assembly elected consuls
-voted yes or no on laws

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Tribunes

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-est after 471
-comprised of only plebs
-could veto senate
-were sacrosanct (protected by holy law)
-anyone who harmed them was put to death

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Cursus Honorum

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-“course of offices”
-ladder of political advancement

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Quaestor

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-20 at a time
-treasures
-became eligible for appointment to the senate
-either treasures for Rome or aids to provincial governors
-minimum age 30

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Aedile

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-4 at a time (2 must be plebs)
-not required on cursus honorum
-event planners
-in charge of food supply
-minimum age 35

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Praetor

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-8 at a time
-judges
-ran Rome in the absence of consuls
-could convene with senate and assemblies
-had imperium (power to command armies)
-had lictors (bodyguards)

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Censor

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  • 2 at a time
    -former consuls
    -elected every 5 years for 1.5 year terms
    -conducted census
    -moral authority
    -appointed or ejected senators
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Proconsuls

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-ex-consuls appointed as provincial governors
-generally super-corrupt

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Roman Full Citizenship

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-granted to free and landowning men over the age of 15
-could vote
-could marry free persons
-could buy/sell/trade goods
-hold public office

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Roman Half Citizenship (Women)

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-could not hold office
-could not vote
-could own property and engage in trade

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Roman Half Citizenship (Slave/Criminals)

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-could vote and trade
-could not hold office or marry free women

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clientia

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-client system
-essentially employment
-clients worked for patrons interests and received money and legal protections
-clients could be inherited from fathers

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Pleb reasons for riots

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-economic crisis in early years, leaving the poor hungry and without land
-the public land (ager publicus) was controlled by wealthy
-nexum was the only way for plebs to get out of debt (servitude that often came with terrible treatment from masters)
-plebs demanded more rights

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Post Volscian War riots

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-Appius Claudius begins to pursue debtors, causing riots
-494 all the plebs leave the city for the Aventine Hill
-this leaves rome without a workforce

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War with Volscians

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-group of barbarians south of Rome
-consuls pass a law stopping the imprisonment of citizens if it prevents them from military service and preventing to seizure of property that belonged to active military
-plebs settled for this and fought the Volscians

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Gaius Menenius Agrippa

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-moderate senator sent to negotiate sent by the senate to negotiate with the plebs
-tells the plebs the story of the “body and the belly”
-plebs agree to negotiate

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Plebs Concessions

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-formation of the plebian council
-divided plebs into 21 tribes, each with one vote
-founded the Tribunes
-was tasked with defending pleb rights
-claimed Aventine for the plebs (wealthy had Palentine)
-built a temple to Ceres for grain distribution and runaway sanctuary
-aedile created to oversee temple
-relations continued to worsen despite this

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Spurius Cassius

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-three time consul, supported plebs
-first to propose land reform
-485 is accused of trying to become king and is killed

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Gnaeus Marcius (Coriolanus)
-493 Coriolanus heads to defense of Corioli during the 2nd war with the Volscians -wins by burning down some houses and tricking the volscians into thinking they already lost -denies payment and is granted the agnomen Coriolanus -runs for consul in Rome but ruins it with his ego -vows to screw the plebs because of his loss
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Coriolanus Revenge
-steals grain shipment and jacks up price during a shortage, wont lower it unless the Tribunes are abolished -Tribunes impeach him but he refuses to stand trial -Resists the arrest by the Aediles -Consuls try to smooth stuff over while the Tribunes continue to demand a trial
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Coriolanus and the Volscians
-goes to the Volscians and brings their armies against Rome -plebs are okay with reversing the sentence to avoid war, but the senate stands their ground -Coriolanus refuses peace until his mother and wife plead with him to accept peace -he returns with his army to Volsci and is killed by an angry mob of Volscians
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Coriolanus Trial
-insults the plebs, causing a riot -Coriolanus goes into hiding and everyone agrees he should stand trial -Coriolanus stands trial but is found innocent because of lack of evidence -Tribunes charge him with embezzlement and he is found guilty and banished
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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
-Born 519 BC -Patrician -Elected consul in 460 BC -Opposed plebian rights -Main Rival: Gaius Terentilius, a tribune who pushed for the codification of Roman law
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Cincinnatus fall
-his son Caeso Quinctius runs tribunes out of forum -was charged and fled to Etruria and sentenced to death in absentia -Cincinnatus sold most of his property to pay the fine and retired on a small farm
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Cincinnatus 1st Dictator
-458 Rome at war with the Sabines and Aequi -Consul Minucius Esquilinius and his men were trapped in the Alban Hills -Cincinnatus made dictator -defeats them in a pincer attack, Aequi surrender and forced to walk sub iugum (under the yolk) -Cincinnatus resigns after 15 days
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Cincinnatus 2nd Dictator
-439 made dictator to stop Spurrius Maelius from becoming king -Maelius is killed when Cincinnatus brings him to trial -resigns after 21 days
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The Decemvir
-451 the plebs and senate agree to suspend the constitution for 1 year -Consul and Tribunes are abolished for this period -Decemvir are appointed to review and publish the laws -Led by Appius Claudius, the decemvir refuse to step down after the 1 year
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Decemvir's Rule
-never relinquish control of Rome -forbid patrician and pleb marriage -Sabines and Aequi declare war on Rome but the troops are unmotivated because of the decemvir, causing the war to go bad
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Verginia plan A
-Claudius falls in love witha pleb, Verginia -Verginia already has a fiance, Icilius, and rejects Claudius -Claudius tries to kidnap her, claiming she is one of his slaves but fails
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Verginia plan B
-Claudius lies that Verginia was stolen from his house and belongs to him -people are angry and agree to hold a trial when her father returns from war, Verginia stays with Claudius in the meantime -her fiance Icilius returns from war and reclaims her -Claudius holds an unfair trial where he is the judge and he obviously rules in his favor
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Verginia Death
-crowd forms to protect her after the trial -Verginius tricks Claudius into letting him talk to his daughter -Verginius then kills Verginia to protect her
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Verginia Death aftermath
-riots break out -Claudius flees -decemvir still refuse to resign -army returns from war and are joined by the plebs on teh Aventine Hill (known as teh Second Secession)
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Claudius Death
-decemvir resign and are thrown in jail -Claudius demands a trial but kills himself before his trial comes -his family was ashamed and refused to acknowledge his death as suicide
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Valer-Horation Laws
-passed by the new consuls after teh decemvir, Valerius and Horatius -Guaranteed the sacrosanctity of the Tribunes, to be protected by the government -Guaranteed the people’s right to appeal government decisions -Gave legislation passed by the Plebian council the force of law
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Twelve Tables
-the one thing the decemvir did right, they produced Twelve Tablets explaining the laws -only the law banning patrician and pleb marriage was repealed -450 the laws were written on 12 bronze tablets and posted in the Forum,

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