ROME

GEOGRAPHY

• Italian peninsula
• Southern Europe
• The Alps in the North
• Apennines go through the middle
• Mediterranean and Adriatic seas

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EARLY ROME

• Founded by Romulus & Remus
• Latin-early settlers of Rome

ROMAN GOVERNMENT

• Republic-elected representatives
• Patricians-Wealthy land owners
• Consuls-2 individuals that ran daily affairs

THE SENATE

• 300 member counsel
• Patricians made laws and served Rome

PLEBEIANS

• Common people
• No say in government

TWELVE TABLES

• Plebeians have Roman laws written
• Gave common people protection

ROMAN EMPIRE

• Rome had a superior army
• Roman legions
• Punic wars-Roman expansion
• Rome was at it's height in 117 AD

JULIUS CAESAR

• Born into a patrician family
• Roman general, statesman, consul
• Began a program of social & governmental reforms
• Was the first historical Roman to be officially deified

ROMAN EMPIRE AFTER CAESAR

• Grew stronger more stable, and expanded in size and scope
• Grew so large that the central government in the city of Rome could no longer effectively rule the vast territory
• Christianity became the first official religion
• Roman Empire officially ended on September 4, 476

FALL OF ROME

• Rome now in control by a Germanic prince
• Life became nasty, brutish and short
• Roman landowners lost their estate
• Lost tax that helped pay for army

AFTER FALL

• The military and the people for once coincided in their choice of an aged Senator to lead them
• (naval battles for public entertainment).
• The Christians were just coming out of hiding and beginning to work their subtle change on society
• The only remaining administrative power left in the city of Rome was the church

CULTURE OF EMPIRE

• The average costs of transport and the technology were comparable with 18th-century Europe
• urban population stopped growing and started to decline
• Roman writers disdained Latin for a cultured Greek style
• governance was the Italic nature of Rome's accretive culture supreme

RELIGION

• Other gods and goddesses were honored in Rome
• was forced to send envoys all the way to Greece
• Papal authority has been exercised over the centuries
• more civil authority first in Rome and in the surrounding territories