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Rome and Italy
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Undergraduate 2
03/13/2013

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Rome Republic
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Believed that "A man without money is the picture of death".
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Rome
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Was first a republic than a senate, appeared in about 800 B.C. Lasted from 753-744 B.C.E.
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Twelve Tables
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A written law-code. According to ancient Roman tradition popular pressure in the 5th century B.C.E led to the writing down of traditional laws to put an end to patrician monopoly of the laws. The resulting compilation __ __ __ was seen as the starting point for the tradition of Roman Law.
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Pax Romana
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Literally, “Roman Peace”. Two hundred years of relative, internal peace, within the Roman empire beginning with the rule of Caesar Augustus
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1st Punic War
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Rome and Carthage came to a clash over who would control the Sicilian city of Messana, an area that the Romans saw as strategically vital to the security of Southern Italy, because it was on the straits between the island and the mainland. Romans won and took over Sicily. During the democratic period.
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2nd Punic War
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From 218-201 B.C.
Began in Spain where Rome and Carthage had signed a treaty dividing the spheres of influence at the Ebro River. The treaty left one mystery unsolved, who would ctrl the city of Saguntum? Despite their size, Gen. Barca was one of the greatest military strategist. He surprised the Romans by taking the war to Italy.
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Hannibal Barca
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Carthaginian general who attacked Saguntum and in the process began the Second Punic War.
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Battle of Cannae
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One of the battles in the Punic Wars. General Barca defeated the Roman army in 216 B.C.E in which approximately 30,000 Romans died.
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Publius Cornelius Scipio aka Scipio Africannus
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Roman general produced by the Roman people that could match the military strategist thinking of Hannibal Barca. He studied Carthaginian battle field tactics and had the skill to improve upon them. Took Carthage's Spanish lands and then sailed to North, Africa bringing the war to Carthage.
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Plebians
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Those who made up most of society, were the Republic’s working people, their numbers, how ever did not include slaves.
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Patricians
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The ancient Roman aristocracy who populated the Senate and were particularly powerful during the republic.
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Senate
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The deliberative body and influential council of Rome during the Republic and Empire. Composed of ex-magistrates with lifetime membership, the senate did not legislate, but conducted foreign policy and warfare authorized public expenditures.
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Triumvirate
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A political regime dominated by 3 powerful individuals.The First _______ (60 BC) of Pompey, Julius Caesar, and Crassus was an informal group of three strong leaders with no sanctioned powers. The Second ____ (43 BC), consisting of Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian (later Augustus)—formally tresviri rei publicae constituendae (“triumvirate for organizing the state”)—held absolute dictatorial power.
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Battle of Zama
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Roman control of the sea prevented Carthaginian ally Phillip V of Macedonia, from helping and Carthaginian support in N. Africa was weak. Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal in 202 B.C.E and won the surname Africanus to commemorate his great victory.
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Cato the Elder
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Roman senator who was strongly Anti-Carthaginian. He continued to encourage the Senate to wage a war against the Carthaginians and Plutarch recorded his rousing speech in 150 B.C.E.
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3rd Punic War
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Because of Cato the Elders rousing speeches and inflammatory language, the ___ ____ ___ began. After a long siege of the citadel(fortress) at the top of the hill overlooking the town. Rome crushed the city of Carthage in 146 B.C.E. The carthaginian general surrendered and his wife who claimed him to be a coward committed suicide along w/ his two children.
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Glorious Sadness
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Noble Wisdom
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Diocletian
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An autocratic(absolute power) new emperor who helped Rome avert disaster. He rose from power as a general and did not want to be called emperor but rather "lord". He organized the government in to tetrarchy, or rule by four men. He made great military reforms as well as economic.
He addressed the decline in population and the little number of workers to do the tasks by freezing people in jobs like: bakers, tax collectors, soldiers, and famers. He lastly made these jobs hereditary.
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2nd Triumvirate
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Political Alliance including Octavian Augustus, Mark Anthony, and Lepidus.
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Fall of Rome
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Historians point to dwindling population, economic problems, reliance on slave labor, civil warfare, and moral decay. As reasons to why ______ failed.
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Caligula
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An heir to Augustus's dynasty, he was an irrational if not insane ruler.
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Suetonius
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Roman biographer and historian; he recorded the popular scandalous rumors that circulated about the decline of the Augustus's successor, his step-son Tiberius.
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Successor's of Augustus Caesar
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Caligula, Tiberius, and Nero.
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Tiberius
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Step-son of Augustus who was an excessive murderer, he would kill those who even dared to insult his stepfather's memory. Like if they carried a coin into a lavatory or brothel.
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Nero
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The most excessive murderer of Augustus's 3 successors: He even managed to kill his own mother by trying to poison her 3 times. When all the techniques failed he simply sent an assassin to kill her. He was so despised even his own guard left him.
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Imperial Cult
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An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor, or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title), are worshipped as messiahs, demigods or deities.
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Mark Anthony
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Husband of Cleopatra, part of the Triumvariate.
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New Testament
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Written in 1st century A.D.
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4 Gospels
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In 397 A.D. the catholic church renders these book as canonical.
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Epistles
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letters written by Peter and Paul.
Peter-> Speaks to Jewish community.
Paul--> Speaks to everyone else.
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Dregs of Society
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Credulous women, poor people, slaves, and Jews
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313 Edict of Toleration
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Written by Constantine a decree for all religions of the empire including Christianity, and the martyrdoms ended.
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Magisterium
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Teaching authority, pope in union with the bishops.
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Infallibility
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Teaching of the church on faith and morals.
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7 Sacraments
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Baptism-> Wipes ou the stain of the original sin.
Confirmation
Communion/Eucharist
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Decline of Rome
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1.) Economic problems
2.) Population Decline
3.) Demographics
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geopolitics
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politics, esp. international relations, as influenced by geographical factors.
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Constantine
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Under his rule, the Christian empire grew rich and powerful and the emperor built beautiful churches in support of the religion. He actively supported the church by returning property to Christians who had been persecuted, gave tax advantages to Christian Priest, and let Christian advisors play a role in his court's inner circle.
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Helena
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Constantine's mother, who built churches where she believed Jesus lived and died. Touring the region of sacred spaces in places like Jerusalem and Palestine.
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Visigoths
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One of the tribes the Romans invited across the border of Constantinople to settle. In 410 B.C.E. However the Romans treated them poorly; giving them land they could not farm, raping their women, and forcing them to sell their children into slavery in exchange for food.
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Ostrogoths
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