Rome Flashcards
Patricians
Wealthy landowners who held most of the power
Remus and Romulus
Mythological Twin sons of ares and a Latin princess’s who were raised by a she wolf and created Rome by the Tibet river
Plebeians
Common farmers and majority of the population
Consuls
Two officials that serve for 1 year
Tribunes
representatives elected by the plebeians that protected fairness
Legions
Roman military units
Dictator
All powerful ruler when crisis arises
Senate
Aristocratic branch of Roman government, in the beginning it’s 300 members were elected from the upper class’s but eventually they let plebeians in
Punic wars
Rome vs Carthage
1st- battle for control of Sicily lasting 23 years and Rome won
2nd- Hannibal, of Carthage, led army and elephants through the alps to the back of Rome and caused a lot of destruction until Scipio, of Rome, planned to attack Carthage and Hannibal had to retreat to protect his city and lost the battle.
3rd- Rome came down & completely destroyed Carthage, started fires and sold the people to slavery
Hannibal
Carthage General in the 2nd Punic war
Scipio
Roman general in the 2nd Punic war
Carthage
Area at the top of Africa, was the only people to defy Rome
Barbarians
What Romans called anyone that was not Rome, included the Huns led by Attila
Julius Caesar
Was a triumvirate with Pompey, and Crassus, controlled France, marched his armies into Rome, Pompey fled, beat Pompey’s army and was named dictator for life. He was nice and got really popular so the senate was worried so Marcus Brus and Gaius Cassius killed him. First dictator, death ends the roman republic.
Death? Markus Brutus, Crassius stab in Senate
Last words? Et tu brute “you too Brutus?”
Betrayed? Brutus
1st triumvirate
Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
2nd triumvirate
Lepidus, Mark Anthony and Octavian
Augustus
Octavian forced Lepidus to retire, then Mark Anthony fell in love with cleopatra and they combined armies, Octavian said Mark Antony was going to rule from Egypt and civil war broke out but Octavian won and after was called Augustus meaning “the exalted one”
Cleopatra
Fell in love with Mark Anthony, Mark Anthony went to Egypt, they gathered their armies together and lost to Octavian
Pax Romana
“Roman Peace” started when Octavian ruled and ended when Marcus Aurelius died
Gladiators
Professional fighters who fought to the death in public
The colosseum
From “ colossus” means gigantic, where the gladiators fought, sports stadiums today are modeled after colosseums
Christianity
Started when Christ died, monotheistic
Peter
Traveled from Rome to Jerusalem and became the first bishop there, also first pope. “The rock on which the Christian church is built on”