Rome notes

Etruscans: 
- made grid section 
- skilled road builders 

• roads were mostly muddy, dirt piles patted down
• made roads:
• to get to places quickly
• the roads had to be dependable 

- romans did gladiator fighting's

• as entertainment purposes
• "bread and circuses" 
• make the people not want to rise up against leaders 
• distracted them from their everyday life

- patricians: money; land; government listened to; high up; government influence 

- plebeians: lower class; ran the shops; farmed  

FORMS OF GOV. 

- senate:

• the aristocrats 
• if your father was in the senate you would be in the senate 
• if you are elected to the senate you are called a senator 

- the 12 tables:

• the first laws that were written down and publicly posted
• plebeians stood out and grew from the result of the 12 tables 
• plebeians were still lacking their own place in the gov 

- the assembly:

• like the senate but for plebeians 
• if your elected to the assembly you are called a tribune

- the consuls: monarchy

• 2 consuls
• they had 2 because they could keep an eye on eachother 
• consuls were only on the job for 1 year
• could run for consul again in 10 years after served once

- dictators:

• given all of the power 
• not an evil person 
• only a dictator for 6 months then you go back to the senate
• only for 6 months to get through the issue
• made big financial decision
• when there is an emergency the dictator would make the decision 

homework:

1. Rome and Carthage fought in the Punic wars from 264 to 146 BC
2. Rome won all the Punic wars