4/8/13

Today in class we reviewed for the test, took the test, and then were told to view Mr. Schick's blog. He told us to take notes on the first chapter about Rome and these are my notes.In 500 b.c. Rome became a Greek styled city state no longer ruled by Kings and queens, but by Roman government systems

• romans loved the way Greeks did things and modelled warfare and government after them
• mediterranean land used for farming and raising more food allowing a larger population
• Latins were first to show up and settled at the Tiber River
• 3 groups of people to settle on Italy were the latins, etruscans, and also Greeks
• latins first learned alphabet and we modelled our alphabet after them
• Augustus Caesar turned military rule into a workable system of government
• Indo-European settlers formed various tribal groups 
• These settlements joined to form a single city-state, Rome
• 264-146 b.c. punic wars between Rome and Carthage
• Etruscans were non-Indo-European immigrants who arrived in Italy somewhere to the east
• Romans adopted plans for a gridiron street plan for cities, gladitorial combats, and masonry arch from Etruscans
• Romans borrowed directly from the Greeks
• Patricians are men with fathers and money(aristocrats and upper class)
• Rome became a republic
• Plebeians were common people inferior to patricians(farmers)
• The people's business was run by the senate(300 or so heads of patrician families)
• Two among the senators were consul(colleagues)
• Consuls on the advice of the senate could appoint dictators
• Tribunes were elected by farmers from outside the city to gain power
• Ultimate leadership of government rested in the senate
• They had a mixed government similar to athenian democracy and Spartan oligarchy
• Pontiffs were priests 
• instead of dedicated his life directly to the state, men now dedicated themselves to family and clans
• paterfamilias were the family fathers that held the family together
• matron was the name marries women who became mothers bore
• roles of mother and fatherhood were revered
• Romans were above all a military people and patriotic farmers/soldiers
• Rome was known for having a superior army
• Generous in their treatment of defeated enemies
• 500 b.c. monarchy was demolished (tarquin was the last)
• people's business is what they referred to their government as
• after 509 is when tarquin was no longer a dictator
• The twelve tables were a set of laws posted in Rome with the laws of the land on them
• Gave Plebeians power because they could now defend themselves
• Plebeians had their own consuls
• tribunes were there senators
• Firts the Latins came, then Etruscans, then Greeks