THE ORIGINS OF ROME

FIRST PEOPLE TO SETTLE

• Latins Greeks, and the Etruscans
• Etruscans skilled metal workers engineers

GOVERNMENT

• Roman republic
• Elected senate

GOVERNMENT RAN BY REPUBLIC

• Taken best features of
• Monarchy, aristacrocy, democracy
• Had 2 consoles
• Directed military and government
• 1 year in power

PATRICIANS

• Patricians higher class citizens
• Controlled most valuable land
• Selected father of state
• Held military and religious positions

PLEBEIAN

• Lower class citizens
• Peasants, laborers, crafts people
• Forced to serve in the army

WRITTEN LAWS

• 12 tables
• They did this because of
• Plebeians

MILITARY

• Units called legions
• 5000 heavily armed men
• Split into groups of 80
• Known as centuries

THE CONQUERED

• Treated them with different laws
• Based On who it was
• People they conquered became allies

TRADE

• Rome good location
• Mediterranean Sea
• Traded wine oil and various foods
• They got raw materials and manufactured goods

PUNIC WARS

• Three main wars
• 1st war lasted 23 years
• War was over cisily and western Mediterranean
• 2nd war started because of Hanniba