Rome notes

146 Bc- Rome attacks Carthage. This is Tiberius' chance to proove himself and not just be dads little boy. Rome won the war against Carthage and Tiberius became king and Rome destroyed Carthage and looted the city. Rome then started to hate the Plebians because there has to be a central focus point.

Chi-cago

Carthage and Rome share the island inbetween Carthage and Rome. Rome wins the first punic war.  Rome holds off Carthage and wins second punic war. Rome destroyed Carthage. Punic wars Rome wins all three. While the armies where fighting, the rich would help the poor out.

4/18

The Latins gave us our alphabet, they came to Rome first. They should rule becasue they were in the perfect location. Tarquin was the last king of Rome, old school type tyrant. He was harsh to the people and not very fair. The Romans loved how the Greeks did things, they modeled almost everything the Greeks did. They decided to get rid of the whole monarchy. Romans moved to democracy. They combined everything together to make respublica (latin for the people's job), combination of 3 governments. They formed the senate, 300 people, they made laws and interprated laws. There were a lot more common people than the rich people. When they first formed the government, it was the rich people ruled everything, rich people on knew the laws and the common people were punished because they didnt know the laws, the common people did the 12 tables and fought against the rich to tell the and keep them informed about the laws. The 12 tables was almost like the 10 ammenments, but it told the common people what the rules were and what the punishments were if they broke a law. The romans liked the idea of a monarchy, but they didnt like how they couln't kick someone out. the common people could veto, the senate elected new people every year.

LO2

-       The Romans where war like people whos first wars were against the Etruscans, Italian tribes, and barbarians.
      
-      After the Romans settled, they looked for allies an new land. The Roman military was exceptional friendly to the enemies.
   
-       Defeated enemies were often made allies and basically became a Roman citizen.

-       They controlled the Italian peninsula

-       The Roman Colonist were jubiliant about the rights of citizenship because it was almost the same as being a true citizen who lived in Rome itself.
     
-       The Allies wanted full citizenship, these were denied

-       Rome became an expanding, absoptive political entity

THE PUNIC WARS
-       By 250 B.C Rome conquered most of Italy, now this brought another rival city

-       Carthage was founded in 700 B.C by Pheonician colonists.

-       Carthage was a lot like Rome and had spred it's influences to North Africa, southern Spain, Corsica, and Sicily.

-       The wars happened between 264-146 B.C(three rounds)

-       The second punic war happened in 202 B.C

-        The third war happened in 146 B.C

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3/20/2013

Today in Western civ, we reviewed on what the deffinition of Hellenistic was. Hellenistic is the time preiod in which Greece ruled most of everything in the Medditeranian. We looked on why Athens lost the Peloponisian war. We started on a project about Alexander the Great. I was always very intrested in him. He never lost a war and died suddenely at age 32. Most people thought that he was the greatest war general of all time and was the son of Zeus. he did a lot of great things for Greece to make it what it is today.

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Hellenistic- "Inernational period" of Greek history when much of the Medditerrenean and southwestern aisa was under Greek rule.




Athens was the stongest city-state and Sparta had a strong military. Athens one strong point was it's navy. Athens plan was to surround Sparta, but the exact opposite happened. Athens lost their ships and was unable to get any other resources. Sparta held on and the "Black Death" wipped out most of Athens people. In 205 BC the spartans destroyed the Athenian fleet. In 413 BC Athens lost two thirds of it's fleet. Then the Black plague killed their highest leader. This strongly hurt Athens because there was no one leader an it was complete chaos. After the Black Plague, Athens did not have enough people nor resources to continue with the war and eventually lost the war.



359 BC- Was the time of the pre Julian Roman Calender. The Macedonian king is killed and Pericleas dies.

LO1

             The Barbarians from sumeria and egyptian homeland eventually branched out to other parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Most people still lived in a prehistoric age after the agricultural revolution. Every one thought of these people to be slaves and theives. A Barbarian is a term used to describe the distinctive way of life based on farming, warfare, and tribal organization that became widespread in Europe beginning around 2500 B.C. Before this, peoples lives were advancing rapidly. In 4000 B.C farming and villages had come with an increase . By 3500 B.C came a higher population and wealth. People started becoming more independant from their tribes. A tribe is a social and politica, unit consisting of a group of communities held together by common intrests, traditions and real or mythical ties and kinship.
As population and wealt increased, more stucture of political and religious uses started popping. They had money to trade for resources, and the people to build it. These stuctures are called maglithic stucturs and some are still standing today. A megalithic structure is a massive rough-cut stone to construct tombs and monuments. Languages and common sense started to show with the barbarians. Armies and massive governments were formed. Rituals for burial were extreme. Still the main business of life was farming. Groups of villages or farmsteads formed tribes and trade was exploded with different tribes. Tribes formed relationships with kings or queens for battle.