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-Emerged in Etruria in 800 B.C.
-Worship human-shaped gods.
-peaked by 500 B.C.E., then declined rapidly under attack by the Gauls around 400 B.C.E. |
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-leads a small band of survivors in search of a new home in Italy
-refuge in Carthage.
-Contradiction to Romulus creating Rome |
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-Each year, two consuls were elected together, to serve for a one-year term.
-Form of government |
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| group of ruling class families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. |
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| the relationship between a man of wealth and influence (patron) and a free client; the client acknowledged his dependence on the patron and received protection in return. |
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| The religion of Ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy the inspection of the entrails, hence also extispicy of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. |
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-Romulus founds the new city, names it Rome, after himself, and creates its first legions and senate.
-Twin brother Remus |
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| a political institution in the ancient Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the "Roman Senate" to the "Roman Emperor." Beginning with the first emperor, Augustus, the Emperor and the Senate were technically two co-equal branches of government. |
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Lucius Tarquinius Superbus or Tarquin the Proud, who ruled from 534-510 B.C., was the last king the Romans would tolerate.
-Tarquin the Proud's son, Tarquinius Sextus, who raped Lucretia, the wife of his cousin, |
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-was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
-After exacting an oath of vengeance against the Tarquins from her father and her husband, she stabbed herself to death |
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-Similar to Plebians
-Patricians were mostly wealthy landowners |
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-Similar to Patricians
-Plebians were mostly farmers.
-Plebians had little power. |
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| a title shared by elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the right to propose legislation before it. |
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