Rome
Executive Branch - Two consuls vs one President
- 1 year term vs 4 year term
Legislative Branch :
Senate - high social and economic status
- serve for life
- advises consuls
Centuriate Assembly - soldiers only
- chose consuls
-serve for life
Tribal Assembly - ordinary citizens
- serve for life
- makes laws
Judicial - 8 judges
- 1 year by the Centuriate Assembly
- two oversee civil and criminal courts (the others govern provinces)
Legal Code -
Twelve Tables - this was a list of rules that was the supreme law of the land in rome
- in America, this is equal to the constitution
Army - along with their government, the romans also took great pride in their military as well
- all men who owned land were require to serve in the army
- some of the high public office positions required 10 years of military service
Legions - the Roman soldiers were organized into large military units called legions
- legions were made up of 5000 foot soldiers
- a group of cavalry would support each legion
- the military organization and fighting skill of the Roman army were key factors in Rome's rise to greatness
Expansion - by fourth century BC, the Romans dominated central Italy
- They had defeated the Etruscan s to the north and the Greek city -states to the south.
Treatment - Latins on the Tiber became full citizens
- in territory farther from Rome, the conquered people were citizens as well but didn't have voting power
- the remaining people became "allies" of Rome
Part 2:
Punic War - series of 3 wars between Rome and Carthage, Rome won this war and took over the Carthage empire. Because of this war the Roman Republic spread. One of the key players of this war is Hannibal. Hannibal was a Carthaginian general. Richer got more powerful after this war.
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