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Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome. The Beginnings of Rome. (according to legend) founded in 753 B.C by Romulus and Remus Developed b/c of its strategic location and fertile soil . Centrally located in the Mediterranean Basin and distant from eastern Mediterranean powers • Italian Peninsula • Alps: Protection

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Ancient Rome

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  1. Ancient Rome

  2. The Beginnings of Rome • (according to legend) founded in 753 B.C by Romulus and Remus • Developed b/c of its strategic location and fertile soil

  3. Centrally located in the Mediterranean Basin and distant from eastern Mediterranean powers • Italian Peninsula • Alps: Protection • Mediterranean Sea: Protection, seaborne commerce

  4. Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans • 3 groups inhabited the region and eventually battled for control • Latins- first Romans • Greeks- coasts of southern italy and sicilybroughtromans closer to greek civilization • Etruscans- Northern Italy, metalworkers and engineers

  5. The Early Republic Republic -A republic is a form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to vote to select their leaders. • citizenship with voting rights was granted to only free-born male citizens. Clip

  6. Patricians and Plebeians Social structure in the RomanRepublic • Patricians: Powerful nobility (few in number) • Plebeians: Majority of population • Slaves: Not based on race

  7. Twelve Tables • Written law code • In 451 B.C., a group of 10 officials began writing down Rome’s laws. • The laws were carved on twelve tablets, or tables, and hung in the Forum • established the idea that all free citizens, patricians and plebeians, had protection of the law.

  8. Government under the Republic • Consuls- two officials • Like kings, they commanded the army and directed the government • power was limited • consul’s term was only one year long • the same person could not be elected consul again for ten years One consul could always overrule, or veto, the other’s decisions.

  9. Senate • aristocratic branch of Rome's government. • both legislative and administrative functions in the republic • there were 300 members, chosen from the upper class of Roman society • Because membership was for life, the senate provided continuity. It also exercised enormous influence over both foreign and domestic policy

  10. Assemblies • more democratic side of government • All citizen-soldiers were members of the centuriate assembly. In the early days of the republic, this patrician-controlled assembly appointed the consuls and made laws. It had less power than the senate • An assembly organized by the plebeians, the tribunal assembly, elected the tribunes and made laws for the common people. Later, it won the right to make laws for the republic.

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