Hannibal crossing the Alps-ONe of the greatest military achievments of ancient warfare. Happened during the 2nd Punic War. Hannibal crossing the Alps was known to be one of the major achievements. of the second Punic War. Took 16 days to cross. Many of their elephants did not survive.
Why did cross- He thought that it would give him a better chance agaisnt the Romans if he came down with all his war elephants.
Roman trade- very vital to the Roman Empire. Most common tarde items: 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. Made tarde very simple by only using 1 form of currency.
ROman Trade- They used the Tiber river, mediterranenan Sea, and the Black sea for a trading route. Manufactoring of goods increased in the empire's cities and many oppurtunties for commerce existed. Rome became one of the empires greatest commercial centers. Two-way tade routes extended to other commercecial centers in lands as far away as Egypt, Hermany and China. The empire location around the Mediterranean sea helped makke all this commercial activity possible.
Roman ag- Used crop rotation. sometimes had to import food becasue of mountains. After conquering Egypt able to import lots of wheat. Most of crops raised on large estates called Latifundias. Cicero considered farming the best of all Roman occupatation. The main crop was wheat and bread present during almost every meal. Majority of work done on the farm was by slaves and servants
Farming- Farms created main sorce of uncome for Romans. certain types of food were given out to the jpublic for free(corn, Wheat). SInce Roman Empire streched through a lot of land there were different climates to allow a mixture of crops produced. Romans had 4 systems of farm managment woek done owner and family. Tenant farming and share cropping forced labor (slaves) and other arrangments
Slavery General info- Ancient ROme depended on slaves. Most slaves were foreigners and unlike most places it did not depend on race. Not uncommon for desperate Romans to sell their children into slavery. When freed they could work the same jobs as the PLebians. Debt slavery was common where a person could work off a debt by becoming a slave for a certain period of time, depending on the debt. Some slaves were forced to become gladiators. Saturnalia a christmas for the salves in which the slaves
Slavery- Manual labor. Domestic services. COuld be highly educated and skilled, worked as teachers and physicians. Slaves task include working on farms-produced the food and materials the cities depended on. Businesses managed shops for store owners, in charge of shop keeping lending of money.
Gladiator games- were games fought between an armed man and a criminal, wild animal or another soldier. They were fought in the Coliseum in front of large audiences. Many of the people who fought the crimainals and wild animals risked theyr social standing and their lives for the glory. They had contimes and scenery which had to be put up as well.
Gladiator Games- THembs up means save the gladiator that's down and thumbs down means let him die. Order of Events at the 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 tigers and lions. Crimainals were sentenced to fight wild beast and usuaully wouold die third round.
Emperors- Tiberius adopted son of Augustus 22 years and 6 months- possibly assassinated by caligula. He was a cruel tyrant who put men to death upon mere suspicion. Caligula great nephew of Tiberius-3 years and 10 months a assassinated in conspiracy involving senators and Praetorian guards. He was insane and once threatended to have his horse made consul. raised a great army and mached it hindreds of miles.
Emperors- Claudius I nephew of TIberus and uncle of Caligula 13 years and 9 months poisended by his wife Agrippina. He was a weak and foolish emperor who allowed the cruelest acts to be commited in his name and then forgot them and invited the persons to dinner whom he had just sentenced to death.
Nero 13 years and 5 months stepson and adopted son of Claudius. HE was a monster of vanity and cruelty he was suspected of setting fire of the city and allowing more than one two thirds of it to bur nin order that he might rebuild it had been before.
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