- legislative
- senate
- high social and economical status
- serve for life
- advises consuls
- centuriate assembly
- soldiers only
- tribal assembly
- ordinary citizens
- serve for life
- makes laws
judicial
- 8 judges
- 1 year by centuriate assembly
- 2 oversee civil and criminal courts
legal code
- twelve tables
- list of rules that was supreme law of the land in rome
- equivalent to constitution in US
army
- along wit their gov, romans took pride in their military
- all land owning men were required to serve in army
- some of the high public office positions required 10 years of military service
legions
- organized army int large units called legions
- made of 5,000 foot soldiers
- a group of cavalry would support each legion
- organization and fighting skill of roman army were key to romes rise to greatness
expansion
- by forth century bc, romans domonated central italy
- defeated etruscans to the north and greek city states to the south
treatment of conquered
- latins on tiber became full citizens
- in territory farther from rome, conquered people were citizens, but didnt have voting power
- remaning people became allies of rome
research
- punic wars were a series of 3 wars between rome and carthage
- at the time, they were probably the largest wars that had taken place
- first war
- 264-241 BC
- rome won
- rome had to build navy in the middle of the war
- fought mostly in sicily and africa
- second war
- 218-201 BC
- rome also won
- most remembered for hannibals crossing of the alps
- hannibal defeated roman legions in several battles
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