2. How did the Etruscans influence early Rome?
Why did Rome and Carthage fight the Punic Wars?
How did the Roman Republic come to an end?
What role did cities play in the Roman Empire?
How did a Catholic Church emerge from early
Christianity?
How did the Roman Empire change under Diocletian
and Constantine?
Why did the Roman Empire collapse?
34. Res Republica
Romana
509 - 49 BCE
Senatus Populusque Romanas
Two consuls with imperium
Dictator during emergencies
Praetor as magistrate
35.
36. Lex Duodecim
Tabularum
I. Civil Procedures VII. Real Property
II. Civil Procedures VIII. Torts
III. Debt IX. Constitutional
principles
IV. Parents and children
X. Funeral regulations
V. Inheritance
XI. Marriage
VI. Property
XII. Crimes
44. Punic Wars
264-241 BCE First Punic War
238 BCE Rome seizes Sardinia & Corsica
218-202 BCE Second Punic War
149-146 BCE Third Punic War
146 BCE destruction of Carthage
58. “Others, doubtless, will mould lifelike bronze with
greater delicacy, will win from marble the look of life,
will plead cases better, chart the motions of the sky
with the rod and foretell the risings of the stars.
Virgil, The Aeneid
6.981-984
59. “Others, doubtless, will mould lifelike bronze with
greater delicacy, will win from marble the look of life,
will plead cases better, chart the motions of the sky
with the rod and foretell the risings of the stars.
“Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth’s people—for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, and crush the proud.”
Virgil, The Aeneid
6.981-984
63. Rome
Executive Consuls, 1 yr term
Senate
Legislature Centurate Assembly
Tribal Assembly
Praetors, 8 judges chosen
Judicial
by Centurate Assembly
Legal Code Twelve Tables
All adult male
Citizenship
landowners
64. Rome
Executive Consuls, 1 yr term
Recommend changes
Senate to the Roman
Legislature Centurate Assembly Republic that would
Tribal Assembly preserve what
representative
Praetors, 8 judges chosen
Judicial democracy it has and
by Centurate Assembly
prevent the fall of the
Republic.
Legal Code Twelve Tables
All adult male
Citizenship
landowners
65. Rome US
Executive Consuls, 1 yr term President, 4 yr term
Senate Senate
Legislature Centurate Assembly House of
Tribal Assembly Representatives
Praetors, 8 judges chosen Supreme Court, appointed
Judicial
by Centurate Assembly for life by President
Legal Code Twelve Tables US Constitution
All adult male All native-born or
Citizenship
landowners naturalized adults
67. Formulate a possible response from the
Roman senators in February 49 BCE
that would have preserved the Roman
Republic.
Discuss with a neighbor; bullet-point suggestions to save the Republic.
72. Rise of Christianity
Leader Religious influence
spread message of love; believed
Jesus
by many to be Messiah
Peter
Paul
Constantine
73. 1. Why did people believe Jesus was the Messiah?
2. Why was Jesus put to death?
3. How did Christianity spread through the
empire?
4. What & why was the Jewish Diaspora?
5. Why did Christianity spread?
6. How was the Church organized?
Romans had no wives, offered choice to Sabine women - offered property rights and motherhood to free men
Sabines chose Roman husbands, then interceded to prevent war w/ Sabine men
Tarquin the Proud’s son raped a Roman’ wife while Romans were off fighting. She asked her husband for revenge, then killed herself