ROME

ROME GEOGRAPHY

• Settled in Italian Peninsula
• Rugged mountains separating from northern Europe
• Used river and Med Sea to trade
• Fertile land to grow crops
• Rome is far up north to escape enemies from the sea
• Sunny and mild climate

THE RISE OF THE REPUBLIC

• Rome benefited from the Etruscans
• Rome then overthrew the Etruscan king
• Growing through Italy
• Then they told every man to go to the army
• After they had a strong army and could conquer

GOVERNING THE RUPUBLIC

• Two classes patricians and plebeians
• Organized into three branches
• One branch is made laws
• Second branch is the daily affairs
• Third branch is the judges
• They had checks and balances
• The consuls headed the government

PUNIC WARS

• Carthage was the enemy in the Punic Wars
• The first war was caused because Rome wanted Sicily
• First war Carthage
• The second war was with Hannibal
• Hannibal had 46,000 men and 37 elephants
• Second war Carthage
• Rome destroyed Carthage in the third Punic War

ROMAN LIFE

• Wealthy people lived in comfortable houses
• Not wealthy worked as shopkeepers
• Poor people live in crowded neighborhoods
• The gladiators fought in the colosseum
• The gladiators were mostly prisoners

ACHEIVEMENTS

• Made new medical ideas
• Made rules for the movement of out solar system
• Roman statues
• In art more realistic people
• Inspirational plays

TROUBLE

• Frequent fights with government
• Food shortages
• Profits decline, going out of business
• Poor leaders
• Taxes were to great

FALL OF ROME

• They had a divided empire
• The western side fell
• Augustus declined
• German tribes attacked
• Then turned into the Byzantium empire