Tuesday, April 8, 2014

April 8, 2014


Tarquin
  • last ruler of Rome

Etruscans

  • Really good at making roads
    • Brick roads, not mud roads
  • Introduced Romans to gladiators
    • Distracted them from their everyday life
  • Arch's made a huge breakthrough
    • Aqueducts
      • Transported water
    • Coliseum
      • Fights occurred here
      • Fought animal
        • Starving, irritated lions or other animals
 
 
Greeks

  • Knew how to sail

Latin's

  • Created alphabet

Plebians

  • Had no power
  • Grew all food and ran all shops
  • Made everything happen

Patricians

  • Money and wealth
  • Had lots of land

Senate

  • Wealthy people were the senators
  • People who were super connected with money and position
    • Would continue through the family; from father to son and so on
  • Could be in the senate for life

Assembly

  • Just like the senate, but for plebians

Aristocracy

  • Poor people
    • assembly

Dictator

  • Dictated what everyone was going to do
  • Only dictator for 6 months then went back to your life before that
  • Had the power to make big decisions

Consoles

  • Most powerful
  • Only in for ONE year
  • Could only run every ten years
    • Made sure a different person was picked often

 

 

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