Thursday, April 10, 2014

More Notes on Rome

Roman Legion
  • The soldiers
  • If you needed to attack someone they would do it
  • The "police"
  • or army
    • divided into two section
    •  one legion is 5000 people
  • They didn't get paid
  • They wanted to do it to defend there country
  • Century:
    • 80 people
  • Infantry
    • soldiers on foot marching
    • "ground troops"
  • Cavalry:
    • men on horse back
    • If they could shoot on a horse you were really talented

Punic Wars
  • Carthage vs. Rome
    • 3 wars
  • Rome won all
    • First was trying to win Cecily
    • Second with Hannibal riding on elephants
      • idea was to go up and down the peninsula, but could never get to Rome
      • Never knew that Carthage was coming in from the north
      • If Carthage won, it would have been the end of the Roman Empire
    • Third was Romans attacks Carthage 


  • Latifundia:
    • A huge estate of farms that people buy
    • Farmers can't cope, they are low on hope, so they move to Rome
  • Gracchus brothers:
    • Rich are getting richer
    • Poor are getting poor
    • Came up with a reasonable solution
    • Give some land back
      • The law got passed
      • Senate got made and beat Tibirius to death with a chair and threw his body in the river  

  • People buy up family farms
  • Made chickens have bigger breasts as a way to get more money
  • But for the chicken that isn't fair

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