GOV AND MILITARY
- executive branch
- two consuls vs one pres
- 1 year term vs 4 year term
- legislative
- senate
- high social and economic status
- serve for life
- advises consuls
- centuratic assembly
- soldiers only
- chose consuls
- servfor e life
- tribal assembly
- ordinary citizens
- serve for life
- make laws
- senate
- Judicial Branch
- 8 judges
- 1 yer by the Cenruriate Assembly
- two oversee civil and criminal courts
- Legal Code
- Twelve Tables
- list of rules that was the supreme low of the land in Rome.
- In america this is equal to the constitution
- Twelve Tables
- Army
- romans took great pride in military
- all men who owned land had to serve in army
- some high public office positions required 10 years of military service
- Legions
- roman soldiers ewere organized into large units called legions
- made up of 5000 soldiers
- military organization and fighting skill of the roman army were key factors in Romes rise to greatness.
- Expansion
- by fourth century BC romans dominated cetral italy
- they had defeted the Estruscans to the north and the Greek city-states to the south.
- Treatment
- latins became full citizens or Rome
- in farther territories from Rome, pepole were citizens as well buy didnt have the right to vote
- remaining people became allies of Rome
- Research
- Punic War
- who fought:Carthage and Rome
- key players
- Cato-Conservative politician in Rome who advocated the destruction of Carthage.
- Hamilcar Barca-Carthaginian General, father of Hannib
- Hannibal-Gerneral who took his armies into Italy.
- who won
- Rome
- Lasting Effects
- Romans expanded throughout the Mediterranean lands and much of Europe
- social instability that brought down the Roman Republic and led to the rise of the Empire
- Hannibal
- Hannibal-Carthaginian General who took his armies into Italy. Military genious who incorporated elephants into warfare
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