descriptions
description of Italy
peninsula shaped like a boot pointing toward Sicily
First triumvirate
C/P/C
ceaser, pompey, and crassus
describe a roman legion
6,000 me groups of 60- 120 soilders
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Two brother who tried to help the poor get their land back
Patricians
Wealthy landowners
second triumvirate
O/A/L
Octavian,Antony, and lepidus
Italys main crops
Grapes/Wine and olives/oil
How did Augustus pave the way for 200 years of peace and prosperity (7)
1. built a permanent professional army with praeorian guard 2. rebuilt Rome
3. imported grain from Africa
4.improved Romes gov.
5.made tax system fair
6. formed the legal system
7.. increased the territory of Rome
plebeians
Artisans,shopkeepers, and small farm owners in rome.
Good emperors
THAMN
Trajan,Hadrian,Antonius Pius,Marcus,Nerva
Aqueducts
Channels for carrying water long distances
Pax Romana
Two hundred years of peae that began with the rle of Agustus
Julio-claudian emperors
T/c/c/n
Latifundas
large farming estates owned by the rich
Describe Romes tripartite
consuls/ ran govt. and army, Senate/ made laws, praetors/ were judges.
Battle of Actium who-results
Octavian V.S. Antony and cleopatra
Octavian won
Italys geography versus Greece's geography
Both: Mountains
Italy: Isolated from other areas and more farmland