Rome Flashcards
Circus Maximus
Chariot races
sponsorships and gambling
Tiberius gracchus
Leader
Advocated that the poor should be given grain and small plots of land for free (failed)
recruited an army from poor and homeless - professional standing army (succeeded)
First Punic war
Carthage attempted to attack Rome but failed
Hamilcar decided and killed in process
Second Punic war
Hannibal (hamlicar’s son) decides to attack Rome by going over the Alps and still failed
Hannibal had abandoned his attempt to go and defend Carthage
Third Punic war
Rome destroys Carthage kills almost everyone and sold others to slavery
Who made up the Carthaginian empire
Phoenicians
Hannibal
Hamlicar’s son
Tried to attack Rome by taking a different route
Julius Caesar
A military commander 58 BC completed conquest of Gaul defied senates order to disband defeated Pompey and his supporters became dictator of Rome launched public works to employ jobless and gave land to poor granted Roman citizenship to people Introduced the calendar was stabbed to death because his enemies were worried he tried to become king of Rome
What was the coliseum and how long did it take to build
It was an entertainment center and took about 10 years
Seated about 50,000 people
Used to ~50 years
Republic
Government with elected representatives
Consul
Ruler of Rome
Job was to supervise the business of government and to command armies
Patrician
Middle-class and up people who owned land
Plebeian
Farmer merchant Etc
owned little or no land
most of population
12 tables
Law Code in 450 BC provided political and social rights for plebeians
rights that can’t be taken away
was written down on 12 tablets
Aqueduct
A way of transporting water (looks like upside down u’s)
When was the end of the Roman Republic
About 49 BC when Julius Caesar marched his army into Rome
Three most successful Roman Generals’s of the first century and also members of the first triumvirate
Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey
Who was the first Roman Emperor
Octavian Augustus
Pax Romana
Golden age
No war, peace for ~150 years
Under roman dictators (not democ)
Rome expands
Where/when did Christianity begin
Jerusalem - year after Jesus’ death
St. Paul
Was the apostle (follower of Jesus after his death) to the Gentiles
St. Peter
1st pope
An apostle that traveled to Rome to find converts to Christianity
Praetorian guard
Private Army to the Emperor
special troops in army hand-picked to protect the Emperor
Pompeii
Buried in volcanic ash
