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Antikythera Mechanism

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  • desiged to predict astriological positions
  • first analog computers
  • to predict eclipses, starts, planet movements, moons
  • only 6 ever made
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Augusti and the Caesars

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the portrait of the four tetrachs

depicts two Augusti- senior emperors and two Caesars- younger emporers

symbolized the concept of a tetriarchy

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Barbegal Water Mill

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on natural hillsides that have rivers, they would be put in sequence and double to mill grain

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Gladiators

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  • professional athletes
  • training took a lot of time and money so didnt want to kill them off
  • the only matches to the death were condemned prisoners
  • goal was to give a good show
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Goths

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the huns were comming into their territory

they ran away and wanted to join the romans

the romans put them in refugee camps and made them pay too much for food

they rebelled and fought against the romans in their own territory

battle of Adrianopoli

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Honestiores & Humiliores

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honestiores are the upper class

humiliores are the lower classes and the prosititues

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Just war

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was a theory of the romans that violent conflict should have some philosophical, religious or political criteria

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Liturgies

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costomary public worship such as mass

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Circus Maximus

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  • In rome, was the chariot racing
  • could hold up to 150,000 spectators
  • was like professional car racing
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Coloni

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evolved from slavery, was inbetween a free man and a slave

was a percurser to surfdom

the person is not called a slave but he cannot go anywhere

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Consuls

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were the governors and leaders of the provinces, were not elected anymore but chosen by the emporer

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Emporer Cult

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was the religion that ex slaves that could not run for office had to pray for the genie of the emporer, augustales

seperate but equal

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Lugdunum Tablet

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was a transcript of a speech Claudius gave and it was in Lyon france (which once was called Lugdunum)

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Manumission

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was when a slave owner let go of his slave, and he became a citizen

he would take the cognomen of the family

could get money from the slave owner and would in return give them a piece of the profit they made on the business

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Military Diplomas

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was a tablet that said that the man was honnorably discharged and was now a roman citizen

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Pozzolana Concrete

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wet concrete, can set under water, it was used for aqueducts in the roman empire

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Praetorian Guard

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were the body guards of the emporers, also for military commanders

the guard was dissolved with emporer constantine

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Roman Forum

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was in the heart of rome, was where trials were held, speeches, statues for the great men

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Equestrians

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this was the horse force of the military, and were only pulled from patricians

by the times of the punic wars all first class needed to serve as cavalrymen

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Etruscans

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were the ancient civilizations that inhabited near tuscany

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Freedmen/ Women

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freedmen could become citizens and vote, even though they would never get to upper classes

women, there was the new guidelines as to what a good wife and woman was

women had control over their own money, there were women writers, nurses, doctors, celebrated athletes, gladiators

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Tribune of the Plebs

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they were always used by the emporer for his personal gains

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Tiumph

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the parades for the emporer or the military commander after a battle, very elaborate

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Triumvirate

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was when ther was three leaders

the first was caeasar, pompey and crassus

the second was Octavian (augustus), Mark antony, and Marcus Aemilius

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Vandals

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eastern germanic tribes that were pushed into the roman empire

they were pushed by the huns

by the time they passed the border there was no more military to they took over gual, all of spain and north africa

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Huns

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came from mongolia and pushed the germanic tribes into the roman empire and caused the fall of the empire