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Romulus and Remus

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Demi-god twins raised by wolves/woodpecker, realized they were royal, Romulus killed Remus, Rome was created

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Aeneas

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Trojan hero/refugee of Troy in Virgil’s Aeneid

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Etruscans

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Originally from Anatolia, colonized Italy until Celtics, Greeks, and finally Romans invaded, who borrowed bronze, religion, (originally greek>) calendar, olives/grapes, alphabet, and military legions in phalanx formation

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Social classes?

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Patricians (landowners) and plebeians (commoners)

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Roman republic organization?

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Representative democracy of 2 consuls (exec.) praetor (jud.) 300 senate, assemblies of people, tribunes (legis.)

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Roman forum

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Center of political and legal activity (senate, assemblies, trials, etc)

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Consuls

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2 consuls, 1 yr term, commander of legions (army), kingly power, head of state, during war Romans chose a dictator

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Praetor

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Judges court, assumed authority when a consul was away

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Senate

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300 aristocratic elders, served for life, advised consuls, made and ratified laws

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Assemblies of the people

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Centuriate and Tribal assembly voted on legislative

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Tribunes

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Legislators elected by plebeians, to prevent civil war

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Magistrates

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High govt officials who advised

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Twelve Tables

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Written law code (everyone innocent until proven guilty, everyone equal under law, right for jury, criminal law, civil rights law, family, debt , business etc)

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Punic wars

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Rome vs Carthage, Rome won b/c general Hannibal of carth tried to conquer surrounding land with elephants but his soldiers grew tired by the time they reached Rome and we defeated so land they conquered was gained/start of empire outside Italy

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1st Triumvirate

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1st triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus), rises in popularity, names self dictator, centralize govt, land to poor, building projects, aristocrats threatened/assassinate

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2nd Triumvirate

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(Caesars grandnephew) Octavian, Marc Antony and Lepidus, divided empire with Antony taking east with Cleopatra Egypt, Octavian kills them thought they were taking over Rome (renames himself Princeps), end of republic begins empire (renames himself Augustus)

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Augustus’ Empire

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Monarchy disguises as republic w/ senate, increase centralization of political/military

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Pax Romana

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Roman peace (roadwork [The Appian Way], trade, concrete, aqueducts, sewage, colosseum, Circus Maximus, gladiator games “bread and circuses” distracted ppl from boredom, poor class increase, rich richer) “5 good emperors” after Augustus’ death

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Paterfamilias

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Dominant males, sons/male relative guardian, arranged young marraige

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Slavery

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1/3 of pop, feared for murdering owners, more slaves more prestige

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Diocletian

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Split the empire into east and west

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German groups that invaded western Rome

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the Huns (like from that awful movie Mulan) and the franks

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Fall of western Rome

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Invasion of Huns/Visigoths, inflation, Rome enters the dark/ Middle Ages 476, 1000 yrs later Byzantine empire invaded by Ottoman Empire Turks

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Christianity

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teaching of Jesus of Nazareth (Palestinian Jew grew up in Galilee), not tolerated by polytheistic Romans and Jews, offered hope to poor

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Edict of Milan

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Issued by Constantine, created tolerance of Christianity

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Acceptors or Christianity

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Constantine: accepted Christianity as his own religionTheodosius: made Christianity the state religion

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Crucifixion

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the Romans way to kill Jesus and followers of Christianity were crucified. After Christianity became the state religion crucifixion was used to kill a non follower

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Jews and the Romans

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At first both groups were tolerant then the Jews revolted and the Romans burned down the temple in Jerusalem

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Constantine

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Moved capital to Constantinople in the eastern half of the Roman Empire (Byzantium)