- Roman Life:
- Hannibal crossing the Alps:
One of the greatest military achievements of ancient warfare.
Happened during the 2nd Punic War
Hannibal crossing the Alps was known to be one of the major achievements of the 2nd Punic War
Took 16 days
Many of the elephants didn't survive
Why?
He thought that it would gibe him a better chance against the Romans if he came down with all of his war elephants
The wars were thought over pure hatred for each other - Roman Trade:
Very Viral to the Roman empire
Most common- Beef, Corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin, and wine
Main trading partners- Spain France the Middle East and North Africa
Used the Tiber River Mediterranean sea and the black sea for a trading route
manufacturing of goods increased in the empire's cities and many opportunities for commerce existed
Rome became one of the empire's greatest commercial centers
The empire's location around the Mediterranean sea helped make this commercial activity possible - Roman Ag
used crop rotation
Sometimes had to import food because of mountains
Laftifundias- Most of crops raised on large estates
Cicero considered farming the best of all Roman occupations
Main crop was wheat and bread
Majority of work done on the farm was by slaves and servants
Farms created source of income for Romans
Certain types of food were given out to the public for free
Romans had 4 systems of farm management work done by owner and family, tenant farming and share cropping forces labor(slaves), and other arrangements in which farm owners lend their farms out - Slavery General Info:
Ancient Rome depended on slaves
Didn't depend on race, Slaves were foreigners
desperate Romans sold their children
When freed they could work the same jobs for the Plebeians
Debt slavery was common
Some slaves were forced to become gladiators
Saturnalia- A Christmas for the slaves in which the slaves and masters switched places - Slavery:
Manuel labor
Domestic services
Could be highly educated and skilled, worked as teachers and physicians
Jobs included working on the farm, managed shops for store owner, in charge of shop keeping, built roads and bridges and arenas. - Gladiators:
Fought between an armed and a criminal, wild animal, or another soldier.
Fought in the Coliseum in front of large crowds
Had costumes and scenery which had to be put up as well - Gladiators Games:
Thumbs up means save the gladiator that's down and thumbs down means let him die
Order of gladiator games:
Animal Hunts- They had a scene and the Emperor would use a bow from his box seat and shoot them
The Bestiarii- These were gladiators trained to fight tiger and lions
Criminals were to fight wild animals without armor or skills - Emperors
Tiberius- son of Augusuts, served 22 years and 6 months, cruel tyrant
Caligula- great nephew of Tiberius, served 3 years and 10 months, he was insane, he threatened to have his horse made consul
Claudius I- nephew of Tiberius and uncle of Caligula, served 13 years and 9 months; probably poisoned by his wife, weak and foolish emperor
Nero- stepson and adopted son of Claudius, served 13 years and 8 months, he was a monster of vanity and cruelty
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