4/21/15

Today in class we starting talking about Ancient Rome. Here are the notes I took:

Ancient Rome:

• Ninth Century- Etrusans, Greeks & Latins made settlements near Tiber River
• The Latins first

City State and Empire:

• Italy and its peoples
• Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome
• Romulus and Remus (How Rome came to be)
• Etruscan settled in north part of Italy
• Rome is set up as a city-state
• Romans influenced by Greeks 
• Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders called the "Senate"
• 500 B.C. the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a "Republic"
• Since the Senate was populated only by patricians and plebians fought for a vote in Rome's government
• Each year the Senate elected two rulers, "consuls", who each served a term of one year
• As in the Greek city-states, The Romans would appoint a single dictator in times of war or conflict
• 12 Tables
• Respublica- latin for "peoples affairs"
• Saw fighting for homeland as a duty
• 476 B.C. Roman Empire came to an end