Rome Notes

1. Rome was the first real empire
2. Trojans go to Carthen's in Africa
3. Wars are going to define roman dominance
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333 bcc- battle of _____ (alexander the great)

264 to 146 punic wars

Important events in Rome:
1. Aeneas / Trojans defeat Latium
2. Alba Longa
3. Romulus and Remus / Founding on Rome in 753 BCE
4. Explusion of the Etruscan Kings / Establishment of the Roman Rebulic 6th cent.
Etruia
Traquin, the Proud
Traquin the Sixth
Lucretia
Lucius Junius Brutus
509 BCE Roman Republic was founded
5. Struggle of the orders / Tribune of the Plebs
6. Roman Expansion / Pyrrus
7. 1st Punic War

1. Third punic war
• Circled the people so they were trapped
• Burned the city
• Poured salt so no more agriculture.
2. Hannibal
• Used war elephatns
• Aristotle was his tutor
3. Battle of Canine
4. Battle of Sana
• Carthigians attack
• Send elephants to attack
• Romans blow horns to scare elephants
• Elephants turn and run at the Carthigian line because they are scared
5. Herodotus - wrote the history of the persian war
• Goes down and tracks down stories for himself
• Tracks people down and asks them
• Wrote the histories
6. Thucydides
• Wrote the history of the Peloponnesian war
• More accurate than Herodotus
• Really wants to get the true story and make sure its right
7. Livy
• Roman historian
8. Akhanten was the first monotheistic leader
9. Pausanias
• Description of Greece
10. Twelve tables
11. Italy
• Villa
• Type of culture
• Country houses
• Armours up on the walls
• Subura
• Tightly compacted
• Causes friction
• Gracchi brothers
• Tiberius and Gauis
12. Gracchi Brothers
• Both assainated
• Makes the beginning of a bloody period
13. Marius and Sulla
• Troops are loyal to them
14. Julius Caesar
• Part of juli family
15. People would get their votes by being popular with patricians
16. Caesar became popular wit the people and he won
17. Pompay
18. Octavian
• Split rome up and some goes to mark antany and some goes to octavian
19. Mark antany
• Allies with cleopatra
• Go to war with octavian
20. Battle of actium
• Octavian becomes the soul power in rome
• Octavian becomes augustus
21. Augustus, tiberius, caligula these are the julio claudian emperors
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Take notes on the three greek historians