Friday, May 22, 2015

May 22, 2015: Test

Things to know for the test on Rome.

- Washington D.C. not actually a swamp (2% swamp)
- First people to settle in Rome: Etruscans, Latins, Greeks
- Latins settled first
- Tarquin the Proud (Tarquinias Superbus)
   - Seventh and Final king of Rome
- Law of the Twelve Tables
- Res Publica : the people's affairs
   - Democracy
   - Aristocracy
   - Republic

- Rome: Executive - Two consuls
- U.S.: Executive - President and VP

- Rome: Legislative - Senate: 300 / Assemblies: 193
- U.S.: Legislative - Senate: 100 (each state) / House of Representatives: 435

- Rome: Judicial - Praetors
- U.S.: Judicial - Supreme Court

- Rome: Legal Code - Twelve Tables
- U.S.: Legal Code - Bill of Rights (The Ten Amendments)

- Punic Wars
   - Three
   - Rome vs. Carthage
   - First war started because of territory for Sicily
   - Second war because Carthage wanted revenge
   - Third because Rome was tired of Carthage as a threat
(Rome won all three wars)

- Latifundia
- Tiberius Gracchus
- Julius Caesar
   - Formed Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus (Rule of three men)
   - "Crossing the Rubicon"


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