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
- Took 16 days to cross
- many of their elephants did not survive the journey
- He thought that it would give him a better chance against the romans if he came down with all of his war elephants
- the wars were fought over pure hatred by one side against the other.
Roman Trade
- most common trade items: beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin, wine.
- main trading parteners: spain, france, the middle east, and north africa
- made trade very simple by only using 1 form of currnecy
Roman AG
- used crop rotation
- sometimes had to import food because 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 occupations
- the main crop was wheat, and bread was present every meal
- Farms created main source of income for romans
- certain types of food were given out to the public for free
- the empire streched through lots of land so the different climates to allow different crops
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
- Saturnalia- a christmas for the slaves in which the slaves and masters switched places.
- manual labor
- domestic services
- could be highly educated and skilled, worked as teachers and physicans
- Gladiator games were games fought between an armed man and a criminal, wild animal, or another soldier.
- Tiberius- adopted son of augustus- 22 years and 6 months
- Caligula- great nephew of tiberius- 3 years and 10 months- assinated in conspiracy involving senators and praetorian guards
- he was insane and once threatened to have his hors mad consul, and at another time raised a great army, and marched it hundreds of miles.
- Claudius 1- nephew of tiberius and uncle of caligula-13 years and 9 months problably poisned by his wife agrippina
- Nero- 13 years and 8 months-stepson and adoted son of claudus
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