Rome Flashcards
Many early civilizations relied on slavery for economic and or religious purposes what civilization was most dependent upon slave labor in its economic realm
Egypt
During the Pax Romana where was the greatest growth seen in the number of newly founded cities
In Spain Gaul and Britain where cities were first built for government and administrative purposes
The Romans avoided destructive class struggle by establishing
A republican form of government
Patricians Aka
Wealthy aristocrats
Plebeians
Common Roman citizen
The government structure included two executives known as
Consuls
A Senate was Dominated
By aristocrats
Tribunes job was to
Speak for the plebeians
who brings years of peace but also the end of the republic to become Imperial
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar is assassinated in 44 BC E what happens next
13 years of Civil War
Augustus government is
A monarchy disguised as a republic
The political stability of this era also produced an expansive and influential legal tradition aka
12 tables
Aqueducts
Water plumbing
Pater familias
Eldest male ruled the household
Manumission
Freedom granted after years of service as an urban slave age 30
Early Romans where what religion
Polytheistic worshiping God’s associated with forces in nature and fertility
Pantheon
House of worship
From Hellenistic Greeks The later Romans Drew on the teachings of the ___especially the ones related to morals and ethics
Stoics
Who began the spread of Christianity
Paul of Tarsus
Founded by
Romulus
Roman tolerance for conquered people is similar to
Persia
Julius Caesar favored
Liberal policies and social reform
Augusts was able to reunify the empire after he defeated his main two rivals who were
Mark Antony and Cleopatra
In 73BCE Spartacus
Raised an army of 70,000 rebellion slaves
Who wrote on the corruption of the early Roman empire
Tacitus
Roman slaves could not
Elect tribunes
The Essenes were a sect of
Jews
Mithraism was popular among
Men -soldiers
Cicero was a
Persuasive writer on stoicism
Etruscans were ruled by
powerful kings
Prior to Christianity what was popular
Cult of Isis from egypt
