Rome Video

Today during class we watched a video that summarizes the notes that we took about Rome. The video sound was not working again. Mr. Schick says he wants to commit crimes because the laptop was not working. We spent the whole class watching the video.

Rome Notes #5

Roman Legion
- 5000 soldiers, not in it for pay
   ~ The Roman army's elite heavy infinity
   ~ recruited exclusively from Roman citizen

• group of eighty’s a century
• on horseback is the cavalry
• shield, sword. dagger, and armor and tube

The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE)

Rome vs. Carthage

Three different wars

First Punic War

• 264-241 BCE
• Naval battles for control of the strategically located 
• Rome wins this one

Second Punic War

• island of sicily
• Carthage loses. He travels at the back of Rome and attacks for 15 years but never reaches Rome
• Carthaginians attacks from he North
• Brings along elephants, some die along the way

Last Punic War

• Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
• Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city
• Carthage was burned for 17 days; the city’s walls and buildings were utterly destroyed
• When the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery
• The rest of Carthage’s territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa

Economic change, social upheaval

• Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 carthaginians 150,000 Greek POWs, etc.)
• By the end of the second century BCE there were over a million slaves in Italy
• Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats

Rome Notes #4

Rule of kings is replaced by rule of two consuls

• consuls are elected officials
• term of office: one year
• always aristocrats (patricians)
• patricians traced their descent from a famous ancestor, or pater (“father”)
• duties: dealing justice, making law, commanding the army
• one consul could veto the other (reducing the power of the individual)

  
  

  a challenge from the “regular folks”

  • fifth century BCE - patrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebs (“people”)
  • plebs were 98% of the population
  • plebs had to serve in the army,

        but could not hold office

  • plebs were threatened with debt slavery
  • plebs had no legal rights
    
    
    “no legal rights,” you say?
    • plebs were victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial trials
    • Rome had no actual laws, just unwritten customs
    • patricians could interpret these to their own advantage
    
    
    So, plebs refused to serve in the military until…
  • laws were written out (The Law of the Twelve Tables)
  • these laws (on tablets) were posted in public (in 450 BCE)
  • tribunes (“tribal leaders”) were elected  
    
    
    SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanum
  • designates any decree or decision made by “the Roman Senate and People
    
    
    res publica
    brand new republic, ready to run
  • democracy (the people’s assembly and the tribunes
  • aristocracy (the Senate - approx. 300 members)
  • plus monarchy (the consuls)
  • not a tyranny

  
  

  
  

  
  

Free mod

Today during class, we got to do whatever we wanted. We got to work on homework because we were ahead of the other classes.

Rome Notes #3

Who settles in Rome?

Etruscans
- Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
- metal warkers, artists, architects
- Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aneid plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
   ~ Religious belief
   ~ Alphabet
   ~ Much of their art
   ~ military techniques and weaponry

Latins (first to settle)
- Descendants of Indo-Europeans
- Settled on the banks of the Tiber
- Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further

They drained the swap
- Many streams flowed into the Tiber
- There was a marshy area called Forum, between Palatin and capitoline hills
- Tarqin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water int he Tiber

Train the Proud
- Lucius Tarquinia Superbus
- The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarqin the Proud
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
- Tarqin sized power like and old school tyrant.

Project Day #1

Today during class, we got to meet up with our partner to start on our Rome project. My partner is Caitlyn. We are decided that we are going to do two project. Caitlyn and I decided we were going to make a diary. We will make two diary's. One is going to be about a Roman women and the other Roman man. We are going to write about their lifestyle and what they do. We will make them get married and then write about their lifestyle as a married couple. We decided that we are not going to make a song because I couldn't stay after school to practice. Caitlyn really wanted to do it so I changed my mind and also decided to do it with her. I won't practice at school but I can practice at home. I will probably use my violin to play along with Caitlyn. During class, Caitlyn got to start on the lyrics and I started gathering notes for the diaries.

Baltimore Riot

Today during class, we had a discussion about the Baltimore riot that happened yesterday. We took the whole class talking about it. The people in baltimore were looting stores and fighting policemen. They were also burning down buildings. The riot might come to Harford Country. Caitlyn said this and she said she heard it from someone that heard it from their parents. We are not sure if this will happen.