Geography
Rome was located on what river?
Tiber River
Lowest Class
Slaves
❖ Allowed easy military transport
❖ Enabled trade and commerce
❖ Helped unify expanding Roman territories
All_______ lead to Rome
Roads
Created Eastern Roman Empire by building new capital, Constantinople
Constantine
Like Florida, Rome is located in Italy which is a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water known as a ______
Peninsula
Plebian class of representatives
Tribunes
The Romans were the first to build ___________.
◆ The running water, indoor plumbing and sewer system carrying away disease from the population within the Empire wasn't surpassed in capability until very modern times.
Aqueducts
was stabbed brutally 23 times by senate members
Julius Caesar
Rome controlled what entire body of water by conquering all land surrounding it
***not a river
Mediterranean Sea
300 members of Patrician class that served for life in the most powerful body of government in the Republic
Senate
Roman defeated Carthage in a series of 3 wars called
Punic Wars
Members of the 2nd Triumvirate
Octavian/Augustus, Mark Antony & Lepidus
•a strong power in the Mediterranean
•founded around 800 B.C.
•coast of North Africa
•large trading empire in the western Mediterranean
Carthage
two members that were generals and served 1 year terms
Consuls
Rome's Law Code
12 Tables
Members of the 1st Triumvirate
Julius Caesar, Pompey, & Crassus
Mountains to the East of Rome which had them settle elsewhere for fertile farmland
Apennines Mts
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
***What the U.S. has
Republic
Golden Age of Rome
Pax Romana
Carthage’s greatest general
Almost destroyed Rome during the Second Punic War
Hannibal
Many barbarians tribes sacked/pillaged/raided the Roman empire.
The Huns, Franks, Vandals, Saxons, Visigoths
of these which of these 2 actually sacked the capital of Rome
Visigoths
Vandals