Rome Homework

consul- two roman officials. 
veto- consul being overruled. 
senate- aristocratic branch of Rome's government.
assembly- the democratic side of the Roman government. 
dictator- a leader who had absolute power to make laws and command the army. 
mercenary- soldiers who fight in any army for pay. 


1. 
A.) Plebeians were dissatisfied with the government in the early years of the republic. Plebeians were barred by law from holding most important positions in government. Like commanding armies, serving as high priest, or holing high offices.


B.) Plebeians won the reform. Plebeians won a greater share of political power. Between 494 and 287 B.C, thousands of plebeians refused to fight in the Roman army unless patricians agreed to certain reforms. 


C.) The plebeians gained higher political positions and more favorable laws. They made a written law called Twelve Table. Marriage between the two groups was allowed and enslavement by debt was ended.


2. The Romans are considered to have a balanced government.Their government was partly a monarchy, partly an aristocracy, and partly a democracy. This gave them the best features of all kinds of governments.


3.  Rome had conquered most of Italy. The won the conquered people over because different parts of the conquered territory had different laws and were treated differently.


4.
A.)  At the start of the Punic Wars Carthage seemed to be stronger. That is because they have a population of about 250,000 and that was 3 times the size of Rome. They also had a huge 500 ship Navy.


B.) Rome was in fact the stronger. They had three advantages. First, Rome could draw a reserve of more than 500, 000 troops. Also, Rome's citizen troops were a lot more loyal and reliable than the mercenaries employed by Carthage. Last, warfare was a Roman specialty.  


5. The Battle of Zama was a major turning point in history. If Hannibal would have won Rome and Carthage would not have became the greatest empire. Rome was victorious, and because of that Rome passed down laws, its government, and its culture to Western Civilization.


6.
A.) Greeks at first welcomed Roman Armies because they went marching into Macedon and looked like protectors of Greek freedom. The Roman Army released Greek from the rule of Philip V of Macedon.


B.) The Greek attitude changed. The Romans interfered with the Greek polotics, crashing all opposition to rulers favored by Rome. Roman power in the east became ruthless. A couple Greek city states tried to free themselves from the Roman power. They failed at that though.

More Rome!

Today in class we talked more on Rome

Tarqun "the proud"

• tyrant
• harsh to his people
• ran him out of town
• the last Roman monarch

Notes:

• Three Branches of Roman Government after him.
• Democracy- government by the people
• Greeks were democracy
• Romans were republic
• Democracy- you vote directly on everything
• In Rome you voted on a Representative to represent you
• Romulus and Remus- founded Rome
• they were sent down the Tiber River in a basket
• they were found by wolves and raised
• then a Shepard found them  
• they got into a fight and Romulus killed Remus
• that is why it is called Rome - Romulus. 
• Rome
• the perfect place in the world
• Palatine hill located near the Tiber River
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Start of Rome

4/27/11

Today in class we read a paper on Rome. We did the vocab and questions.

Vocab:
republic- a political unit that is not ruled by a monarch and in which citizens with the right to vote chose their leaders.
gravitas- A person with these qualities was said to have the important virtue.
patrician- Specially privileged families
plebeians- common farmers, artisans, and merchants.
legion- learning to fight roman-style meant being part of a massive military unit.
toga- uncomfortable garment
pater familias- eldest man, father of the family.
century- 100 years


1. Rome's geography helped them. They had a lot of importing and exporting ships with goods.

2. These three groups helped in Rome's development. The Latin's helped Rome become a shepard settelment. The Greeks helped Rome come closer in contact with the Greek Civilization. The Etruscans were more civilized and some of Rome's kings came from Etruscan background.

3. The values of early Roman society were family, strength, loyalty, and discipline.

4. The Pater Familias organized the family. He could sell any family member he wanted into slavery or even kill them. He was the protector. Someone in the family was the caring one or the gravitas. 

b. A woman in Rome was a citizen. She ate with her husband while she sat upright her husband reclined in the chair. She had much more freedom then woman in Athens. Women did not have the right to vote though. 

5.  Rome was linked to the Army. All male citizens were required to go into the Army. They always had a constant threat of war, so they always had to have a good and prepared Army.

4/20/11

Today in class we took a test. Mr. Schick was not here today. He is sick! The test was some what hard. I would say it was medium. Now we have Easter Break!!

4/19/11

We finished all of our power points today.

Alexanders Conquest
Emily Kennedy: 97%

• Aristotle was his tutor.
• First he attacked in Thessaly
• Then he defeated Thracians
• Next he defeated Illyrians
• He defeated King Darius III the leader of Persia.
• After he died his empire was divided into four kingdoms. 
• He mixed the cultures together that he conquered. 

How did he attack the places he attacked?

Review for our test:

• Greek Architecture:
• Greek Parthenon: Doric 
• frieze is the decorative little statues of normal people 
• Greek art
• what were the ancient Greek sculptures made out of- limestone, marble, bronze. 
• Ancient Greek is mainly in five forms- architecture , sculpture, painting, painted pottery, and music. 
• Greek Philosophers
• Socrates- Socratic method, questioned people. Knowledge was important because it resulted in good behavior. He made you think. He was charged with impiety(disrespecting the gods) and corrupting the youth of Athens. He drank Hemlock, died at 70. He didn't apologize for what he did, because it wasn't wrong. 
• Plato- He thought the philosophers should rule, because they knew all the right answers. 
• Aristotle- wanted Athens to be a place for anyone to study anything. He taught that happiness is the goal of life. He wanted a library to cover everything. (The academy)
• When people first revolted against their leaders- 508 b.c.
• Army battles
• Sparta started the Pelopenisian war. Won by Sparta. 
• Athens was to attack all the neighboring of Sparta
• Athens walled in their city- everyone got plaque, got sick, and died. Pericles, Pericles son, 
• Drama
• comedy, tragedy, satyrs. 
• 550 B.C. started
• plays were performed in Theaters
• very big area, seats carved out of the hillside. Skene, was behind the theater.  
• used masks to provoke the voice loudly. 
• Breakthrough in Math and Science:
• Uclid- figured out geometric theories 
• Archimedes- volume, levers, and pullies. 

Describe the Allegory of Plato's cave:

• People are telling you but its not always true. Prisoners were strapped to a wall looking at another wall. Then one prisoner was let go and came back to tell the other prisoners what  he saw. No one believed him because he couldn't see right because of how dark the cave was and he just came out from the light. Its hard to prove your point when no one can see what your point is. 

4/15/11

Today we watched a move called Alexander.

• Battle of Hydaspas- last battle of Alexander the Great 
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4/14/11

I was sick, I wasn't in class today.