Rome Flashcards
Where is Rome and where did it start?
Italy, and the Tiber River
After ______ BC other groups joined the romans in italy, especially ______
800, Etrustcans
Etruscans lived in North of Rome ______, and took over Rome by _____ BC
Etruria, 650
Etruscans were skilled ______ workers, model for roman ______, adopted Greek alphabet, architecture, sculpture, literature, and adopted how to grow olive and grapes
Metal, Army
Senatus Populusque Romanu is _______
SPQR
The Republic
Senate and people of Rome, a type of government where citizens have power.
Patricians:
Wealthy landowners, and only they could hold office.
Plebians:
artisans, shopkeepers, and owners of small farms.
Marriage between two classes of ________ and ____________ was forbidden.
Plebeians, Patricians
Consuls:
Top government officials, ran army and government. Two new chosen every year, and one could veto anothers decision.
Senate:
most important legislative body. Made up of 300 men, and served for life.
Senate did what:
Proposed laws, held debates, and approved building programs.
Roman laws:
12 tables
Rule of law applied to everyone:
“All free citizens had the right to be treated equally by the legal system.”
There is a new class of wealthy romans, and they become wealthy by?
control trade and conquering places as a general.
They build lavish mansions, and wealthy families bought huge estates called ______:
Latifundia:Farming Estates
People forced slaves to captured in wars to work on ________, and this hurt ______ farmers
Latifundia, small
All of the ______ coming in from conquered land ____ the prices, and this this causes farms to go out.
land, lowered
People who lost their farms when to the city for a job but this caused?
A lot of homeless people in the cities.
Because there was so many rich people in Rome with lavish houses this angered who?
The homeless and there was riots and mobs.
_____ and ____-_______ replaces morals and hardwork in Rome.
Greed, Self-interest
In 133 BC two patricians _______ and ________ _____ tried to make attempts to reform Rome.
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
The two brothers were trying to give ____ back to the farmers, and take public ______ and buy grain to feed the poor.
land, funds
The two reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were _____ because they wanted to make _____, and someone was _____ to kill them.
killed, change, hired
Bread and Circuses:
A way the government manipulate the masses
Bread:
Circuses:
Free Food
Free entertainment
Marius Julius Caesars _______ offered Land to people for _______
Uncle, Loyalty
Marius made people for loyal to him and not Rome, this inspired other men to?
lead militaries and cause civil wars.
Julius Caesar was a __________ ________
Successful Lawyer
Julius was held for _____ by pirates, and he told them to ____ the ransom. Then he broke free and ___________ the pirates.
ransom, raise, crucified
Caesar makes it to Consul then forms the Triumphrat with three people:
Himself, Pompey, and Crassus
Caesar is Victorious all across Europe, took control of ______, Breached all borders of _____ and gained great respect
Gaul, Britan
Crassus:
Pompey:
-Dies in battle
-marries caesar’s daughter, but she dies in birth, so the alliance broke and they are at a civil war.
Caesar gains so much respect that who have to turn on him.
Pompey and Crassus
Pompey wants Caesar to come ______ because he thinks that Caesar is a threat to the Senate (_______)
home, treason
Caesar is ________ to come home, but before he got back _________ head was cut off in Egypt, and they sent it to Caesar.
nervous, Pompey’s
They made Caesar dictator of Rome for ____ years
10
Tribunes:
protected the rights of the plebeians from the unfair patricians.
Consuls:
commanded the army and directed the government
Assemblies
democratic side of the government
Legion
5,000 heavily armed Soldiers
Centurion
roman officer in charge of a century
Italic Rights
The exemption of Roman citizens in Italy
Praetorian Guard
legion that was made of free-born roman citizens and Latins.
Romes early language
Latin
