test review

• people who settled on Rome
• Etruscan
• greeks
• latins
• latins settled on Palatine hill
• Tarquin was the seventh and final king
• lucretia was attacked by Sextus, committed suicide, people rose up against the king and got rid of them
• res publica - the people's affair
• democracy
• aristocracy
• plus monarchy
• not a tyranny
• republic comes from the word res publica
• both branches of gov had
• executive
• legislative
• judicial
• both have legal codes
• senate - 100 senators (two from each state) six-year terms
• house of representatives - 435
• 55 from Cali, MD has 8, AK, DE, MT, ND, SD, VT, WY had 1; two-year terms
• SPQR judicial had praetors that only did criminal cases
• twelve tables
• publicly displayed in the forum
• gave rights to plebeians, not just aristocrats
• only protected free born male citizens
• bill of rights
• first ten amendments to the constitution
• 5,000 soldiers are a legion
• 80 people is a century
• first Punic war; a naval battle over Sicily, Rome wins, 264-241
• second Punic war; Hannibal tried to invade Rome by coming from the north, Rome won, 218-201
• third Punic war; Rome destroys Carthage, Carthage people who weren't killed were slaves, 149-146, the war ends
• latifundia: big farms
• poet Juvenal said Rome "anxiously hopes for two things; bread and circuses"
• julius caesar was a highly successful general and conquered the huge territory of Gaul
• first triumvirate: Pompey, Crassus, and Julius
• crossing the Rubicon: crossing the point of no return