- Made grid sections
- Master Road builders
- Roads were mostly muddy dirt piles when it rained
- Helped people get places quickly
- They had to be dependable
- Introduced gladiator fighting which was a huge part of Roman identity
- Made people not realize how bad there lives were
- The arch was another Etruscan breakthrough
- Coliseums were where they mad Christians go against lions
- We got our language for the Latins
- Plebeians were the lowest class
- They ran stores and grew food
- Patricians were highest up
- The consuls were two of them
- Senate: the aristocrats if your dad was in it, you would be too
- 12 Tables- First laws
- This helped the Plebeians, they got in trouble for things that weren't illegal
- Assembly was like the senate but for Plebeians
- IF you were elected to the Assembly you were called a tribune
- Aristocracy-Senate
- Democracy-Assembly
- Monarchy-2 consuls
- There was two so not one would become two powerful
- If they needed a person to make a quick decision they would use a dictator
- You were only dictator for 6 months, to get you through the crisis
- The consuls were in power for 1 year. Then, you could only run again after 10 years
Homework
- Rome and Carthage fought in the Punic Wars.
- Rome won all of the wars
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