Additional
Notes
- Since there was so many middle
class citizens in ancient Rome a new house was made called the assembly
the representatives for the common people were called tribunes
- Three parts of the Roman
Republic was: Democracy, Monarchy, and Aristocracy
- The main square in Rome was
called the Forum
- res publica stands for the
republic in Ancient Rome
- Consuls(two of them) represents
Monarchy. Like President in the U.S.A government
- Assembly represents Democracy.
Like House of Representatives in U.S.A government
- Senate represents the
Aristocracy. Like the Senate in U.S.A government
- The dictator who was elected
for a time of crisis could only serve for 6 months max
Punic
Wars: only on the first war not the other two
- Carthage vs. Rome
- Carthage is on the north coast
of Africa
- Carthage had control of
almost all of Africa's north coast and some of Europe like Spain
- 3 wars were fought total
- First war was a battle over the
island of Sicily, Rome won
- Hannibal(Carthage army
general) used elephants to fight in wars
- Roman Legion- Rome's army
- A legion is made of 5000 men. A century- 80 men.
- Infantry was foot soldiers.
- Cavalry was people on horse back.
- Carthage is located in Northern Africa
Punic Wars
- Rome VS Carthage.
- First Punic war was specifically fought over Sicily. won by the Romans
- Second Punic war was because Hannibal wanted to get revenge after his dad died in the first roman war. Rome won.
- Third Punic war. Rome wanted to get rid of Carthage before they could get more troops again. Rome destroyed Carthage.
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