- The Etruscans and the Greeks were very important in Roman history.
- The Etruscans had a written language which the romans took most of their writing technique from
- the Greek gods and goddesses
- The Latins were the first to live in area
- many roman words came from latin
- Latins had huge influence
- Tiber river is where latins lived
- latins were dominate and civilized people on this area of the river
- No one has a clue of what draining the swamp has to do with Rome.
- The romans soon became in this region and Latins become part of it
- they soon had a king called Tarquin
- he later earned the name Tarquin the proud when he became a control freak and people didn't like him.
- The people got angry and later drove him out of Rome
- Because of the people learned how bad a king could be
- they never had another dictator
- they had a republican government
- The years after the war
- the first latifundia were added from the spoils of war, taken away from farmers returning from the war latifundia were the roman estates only slaves worked the land
- not the sturdy roman farmers who had been in Republic's army.
- they produced oil and wine for exportation
- Tiberius and Gaius
- Roman plebeian nobles
- served as tributes (Elected officials in the roman republic) in the second century
- attempted to pass land reform that would retributed huge pieces of patrician land among the plebeians
- considered the founding fathers of socialism and populism
- both were assassinated for their attempts
- Full name was Gaius julius caeasar
- he was son of Gaius Caesar and Aurelia
- he was born in 12 July 100 BC in Rome
- he was Roman general and statesman
- he played a critical role in the change of Rome from a republic to an empire
- he lead Rome to victory against Gaul
- he was appointed dictator for ten ears in 47 bc
- Sulla who was a dictator stayed longer than six month period, tried to kill caesar
- But, Caesar bribed to spare his life
- he knew that he had to govern provinces
- The rubicon river is a shallow river in northeastern Italy
- it flows beween the towns of Rimini and Caeser.
- when Julius Caesar crossed this river, it was considered an act of war
- Gallic wars were series of military campaigns lead by Julius Caesar this was against several Galic tribes
- Caesar was proclaimed dictator in perpetuity
- Julius Caesar dictator of Rome
- stabbed by senators
- Ides of March, march 15 in 44BC
- Theater of pompey
- The senate was afraid he was getting to powerful
- the senators waited outside the theater and directed him into a room. they asked caesar to sign something getting someone's brother out of exile. He didn't so they pulled him down and started stabbing him. he was stabbed 23 times in the chest
- his friend was included in the stabbing. His last words were "You too Brute?"
- Born into an equestrian family in rome on septmber the 23
- his father was the first one to become a enator in the family but died when octabius was four.
- he severed julius caesar in the spanish expedition in 46bc
- Marcus Aemilis Lepidus was born 88bc and was roman patrition who became a member of second triumvirate
- lepidus was maong caesar's greatested supporter after Caesar's murder
- Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
- she represented herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian Goddess Isis
- In our paragraph of the song it states octavius was 18 when he started ruling
- was very close to lepidus and marc antony
- all three formed offical three-man government called "the second triumvirate"
- cleopatra coame into the scene and tried to take over octavius's power.
- octavius remailed ruler and changed his name to augustus and lived on
- Pax romana- latin for roman piece
- roman roads
- roman roads allowed the Romans to move armies, trade goods,a nd to communicate.
- Roman Gladiators
- the early people interpreted the gladiatorial games as a type of human sacrafices
- Circus Maximus
- the circus maximus is an ancient roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue