Legislative:
- Senate
*high social and economic status
*serve for life
*advise consul
- Centuriate Assembly
*soldiers only
*choose consuls
*serve for life
- Tribal Assembly
*ordinary citizens
*serve for life
*makes laws
Judicial:
- 8 judges
- 1 yr by centuriate assembly
- two oversee civil and criminal courts (the others govern provinces)
- legal code
- Twelve Tables
- this was a list of rules tat was the supreme law of the land in Rome
Example: America has a constitution - Army
- Romans took pride in government and military
- all men who owned land had to serve in the army
- some of high public office positions required 10 yrs of military service - Legions
- Roman soldiers were organized into large military unit called legions
- were made up of 5,000 foot soldiers
- a group of cavalry would support each legion
- military organized and fighting skills of the roman army were key factors for Rome rising to greatness - Expansion
- 4th century B.C., Romans dominated central Italy
- defeated the Eruscans to the north and the greek city - states to the south - Treatment
- latins on the Tiber became full of citizens
- area farther from Rome, the conquered people were citizens but didn't have any power to vote
- the remaining people became "allies" of Rome
Research:https://mrbruns.ning.com/profiles/blog/new
Punic Wars and Hannibal
Who fought it?
- Rome and Carthage
Key Players
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Who won?
- Rome won over islands from Carthage so the leader of carthage made his son, Hannibal, so promise to go back and make Rome pay for what they did to the Carthage people.
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What happened because the war?
http://rome.mrdonn.org/hannibal.html
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