Roman Government
- Executive branch
- two consultants vs. one president
- 1 year term vs. four year term
- Legislative
- Senate
- high social and economic status
- serve for life
- advises consultants
- Centuriate assembly
- soldiers only
- chose consultants
- serve for life
- Tribal Assembly
- Ordinary citizens
- serve for life
- makes laws
- Senate
- Judicial
- 8 judges
- 1 year by the Centuriate assembly
- two oversee civil and criminal courts (the others govern provinces)
- Legal Code
- Twelve Tables
- This was a list of rules that was the supreme law of the land in Rome
- in america, this is equal to the constitution
- Roman army
- along with their government, the Romans also took great pride in their military as well
- all men who owned land were required to serve in the army
- some of the high public office positions required 10 years of military service
- Legions
- the roman soldiers were organized into large military units called legions
- legions were made up of 5,000 foot soldiers
- a group of cavalry would support each legion
- the military organization and fighting skill of the roman army were key factors in Rome's rise to greatness
- Expansion
- by fourth century BC, the Romans dominated central Italy
- they had defeated he Etruscans to the north and the Greek city-states to the south
- Treatment
- Latins on the Tiber river became full citizens
- in territory farther from Rome the conquered people were citizens as well but didn't have voting power.
- the remaining people became "allies" of rome
- Research
- punic wars and hannibal
- discuss who fought in the war
- key players
- who won the war
- lasting effects of the wars: how it affected romans and carthage
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars that were fought between Rome and Carthage.
Hannibal was the leader of Carthage in the second war and led his elephant cavalry and into Italy, yet lost the war
rome won all three punic wars.
Carthage was destroyed and the land was salted so they couldn't grow crops
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