Monday: Work day, and finish tests
Tuesday: began Rome notes
- Latins
- Were the first Romans
- built the original settlement of Palatine Hill in Rome
- Greeks
- Came in after the Latins
- Etruscan's
- Came from northern Italy
- Skilled metal workers and engineers
- Had a writing system with an alphabet that the Romans adopted
- Greatly influenced Rome architecture
- Outside of Greece, the most advanced and well off civilization
- Early Republic
- Run by the Etruscan's
- Ruled by a king,King Tarquin, until overthrown by Brutus
- Brutus was the Founder of the Roman Republic
- Republic - a form of government in which the power rests with the citizens who have a right to vote for their leaders
- Two Parties
- Patricians - wealthy landowners who had most of the power
- Plebeians - were farmers, artisans, and merchants that made up most of the population
Wednesday: talked about the election and politics
Thursday: talked more about the election and politics, and then took notes on Rome
- Punic wars
- Rome vs. Carthage
- Series of 3 wars and lasted 118 years
- First Punic War - fought for Sicily and the western Mediterranean, lasted 23 years
- Second Punic War - was started by Carthage to get revenge from the previous loss, lasted 16 years
- Hannibal a brilliant carthaginian general led a massive attack on rome
- Using an army of 50,000 infantry, 9,000 calvalry, 60 elephants
- He lost half his men and most of the elephants before reaching the romans
- For almost ten year, hannibal marhces his men up and down Italy
- Rome retailiated and won
- Third Punic war - 50 years after the second
- Rome went on the offensive and laid siege to carthage
- Burnt cities and 50,000 people were sold into slaverly
- With Carthage out of the picture, Rome would continue its conquest in the upcoming decades
Friday: talked about the election and more Rome notes, check Thursday for continuation of notes
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