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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