Wednesday, April 9, 2014

4/9/2014

Since I missed class yesterday, Cam sent me his notes.

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 

 
My Notes from todays class
  • 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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