Wednesday, April 2, 2014

4/2/2014

People to settle in Rome
  • Etruscans 
  • Greeks
  • First people were Latin's

Notes
  • Rome was in the middle of the peninsula
  • They were in the middle of the world
  • Italy was in the middle of the med sea
  • Found a way to divert the water to not make land saturated and marshy
  • Drained out swamp and took water flow from other rives and diverted it into Tigris river
  • Tarkin the proud was the last Roman King; tyrant; didn’t listen to his advisors; he was ran out of town
  • Romans took many things from the Greeks
  • Res publica - the people business; where the word republic comes from
  • Republic is part democracy, monarchy and aristocracy
  •  instead of a king, there were 2 consuls (president/king)
  • Senate and the house of representatives, u.s. is modeled after Roman government
  • Senate runs every 2 years
  • They discovered what kind of government they want to have
  • u.s. went to roman government but gave more power
  • Plebeians(middle class) and patricians(aristocrats) and slaves

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