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Rome
map,timeline,notes,and vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does forum mean | a roman public meeting place |
| Dictatorship | A ruler who has almost absolute power |
| Empire | Land with different territories and people under a single rule |
| Emperor | Name of the Roman ruler ruing the imperial age |
| Patricians | The Nobles in Roman society |
| Plebeians | The common people of Ancient Rome |
| Consuls | The two most powerful officials in Rome |
| Senate | Roman officials who were appointed by the cousls |
| Veto | To reject or prohibit actions and laws of other government officials |
| Checks and Balances | A system that balances the distribution of power in a government |
| Latin | The language of the Romans |
| Arch | A structure that spans a space and supports structure and weight above it. |
| Aqueduct | A human-made raised channel that carries water from distant places |
| Civil Law | A legal system based on a written code of laws |
| Pax Romana | Roman peace, a general time of peace and prosperity in Roman empire. |
| Italy is on the continent of itaily | Rome is found on the peninsula of italy |
| two mountain ranges | ALPS, APENNINES |
| two main rivers | po river and the Tiber river |
| big famous story's | remuls and remus |
| when did discover when they lived | Approx. 800 B.C. archeologists discovered that people settled in Rome. |
| natural defenders | The big hills |
| The dangerous river | the river was too fast for big ships to enter or attack them. |
| Monarchy | held absolute power |
| What is a republic? | People elect leaders to govern them. |
| fact rome | Rome was not a democracy |
| goverment | Only a small group of wealthy & powerful men had say in how the government was ran. |
| people of italy | Only a small group of wealthy & powerful men had say in how the government was ran. |
| people of italy | 700 BC Greeks settled in S. Italy and taught the Romans Greek culture |
| people of italy | Romans identified with Greek mythology gods and made their own with the Greeks |
| beleive | Believed Virgil, a Roman writer of the Aeneid and character Aeneas,was their ancestor |
| etrauscans | Etruscan were most powerful Italy |
| Etruscan | Influenced Roman culture, skilled artists, builders, sailors, and traders. |
| Rome | By late 200s BC, Rome ruled all of italy |
| Rome | Legion- basic unit of the Roman army |
| Rome | 4,000-5,000 foot soldiers or infantry |
| Rome | Maniple - unit of 60-160 soldier who formed a solid line more flexible |
| rome | power was spread along people so one person did not get to much people |
| goverment | if a branch acts to greedy the other branches will keep them in check |
| goverment | they would split the office of two |
| goverment | they could veto each other |
| consittution | unlike U.S it was unwritten like a tradiditon |
| goverment | the law applied |
| goverment | cousls served for one year elected |
| goverment | magistates looked after money and were judges |
| senate | magistates reotired to senate |
| senate | advised the cousls |
| senate | ended up contrallying rome |
| Assembalies | Democratic |
| assembalies | weathy citezens votes counted more than poor |
| assembalies | elected officials and passed laws |
| assembalies | power checked by Senate and elected officials |
| judges prater | judged cases |
| judges prater | managed the city of rome |
| judges prater | led many armies into war |
| judges prater | could be elected into cousls |
| tribues | plebiean could run for this |
| trubues | acted as protectors |
| tribues | right to veto any law or action of any magrite |
| tribues | it is forbiddon to harm or stop a tribuen from doing his job |
| rome cositution | unwritten |
| both | consittution |
| U.S.A | written |
| rome costution | freem male citenzens |
| both | right to vote |
| U.S.A | all citezens |
| rome cositution | cousl assembalies senate |
| both | 3 branches of goverment with 3 different power |
| U.S.A | Exvutive,judicial,Legilative |
| Men | Ruled the family |
| men | Oldest man owned all the property |
| men | In Theory absolute unlimited power over family |
| men | could sell his own children or kill them |
| men | in practice limited by custom |
| woman | more freedom than the greeks |
| woman | own personal property |
| woman | active social life paties theater realigous rituals |
| woman | could not vote, attend assembalies or hold office |
| woman | most importent role have children and raise them to follow traditions |
| weathly | eared money from argraculture |
| weathy | owned large farms or buisniss |
| weathy | grew rich from slaves |
| weathy | Men looked after business while woman supervised slaves and children |
| common people | most people lived in cramped aparments |
| common people | poorly built homes disees crime fire dangers |
| comman people | worked a varity of jobs tenat farms labors ran stors taversns |
| slavery | bought and capturaed 40% in 1 B.C |
| slavery | No rights |
| slavery | some were in harsh condition |
| slavery | others weathly mastors |
| slavory | some educated |
| slavory | some led armys 70's |
| slavory | but the romans caught them |
| senators | Had great politacal power weathist nobles |
| nobles and patracsns | officials and advisors land owners romes ruling class |
| plebians | majority of roman class |
| plebians | less wealthy |
| plebians | crastpeople mercachants |
| freedmen | once were slaves now free |
| freed men | major restrictions on legal rights |
| slaves | lowest class |
| slaves | no freedom |
| slaves | considered property of land owners |
| wars | punic war |
| wars | punic war 2 |
| wars | punic war 3 |
| punic war | carthage vs. Rome |
| carthage | it is a northern city in africa |
| rome | strong army |
| carthage | stong navy |
| carthage | is a town in north Africa |
| carthage | it surprised the romans in the 3 Punic war cause rome has never seen those animals |
| poppei | it is located in campinia |
| popei | a volcano erupted |
| popei | and destroyed all of pompi |
| popei | it left nothing but mountains of ashes |
| best emporer | Nerva |
| best emporer | Traja |
| Best emporer | Hadrian |
| Best emporer | Antionus pius |
| Best eporer | Marcus arulius |
| internal threats | Food shortages |
| internal threats | disease |
| internal threats | Increase in taxes for pay to defences |
| internal threats | empire was super long and giant way too big for one emporer |
| internal threats | Germans came for food and to farm abandonded lands |
| internal threats | German communites ignored Roman emporer |
| external threats | tribes of fierce Germanic tribes attacked rome's northern boarder |
| external threats | Person armies invaded the east |
| external threats | splitting apart the empire |
| western empire capital | rome |
| western empire was conquered by | Goths and other barbarians |
| date of fall | 476 AD |
| eastern empire capital | Costipale |
| eastern empire was conquered by | Ottoman turks |
| eastern empire date of fall | 1453 AD |
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