Rome Review

- Rome's founding myths
  - Remus and Romulus raised by wolf
  - Virgil's Aeneid (Rome's Odyssey)
- Rome started with kings
- Tarquin is last Roman king
- Borrowed a lot of Greek culture
  - Religion
  - Alphabet
  - Art
  - Military techniques and weapons
- Rome became a republic
- Patricians hold control
- Patricians trace descent to a powerful, wealthy person
- Plebeians challenged Patrician dominance in 5th century B.C.
- Plebs had no rights
- Rome had no written laws (Law of 12 Tables)
- Tribunes represented Plebs in Assembly
- SPQR
   - Senatus Populusque Romanum
   - Designates decree of Roman Senate
- U.S gov modeled after Roman gov
  - Legislative- Senate (Rome:300 U.S:100) + Assembly or House (Rome:193 U.S: )
  - Judicial- Praetors or Supreme Court (Rome: 1yr U.S. Life)
  - Legal Code- 12 Tables or Bill of Rights
- 5,000 soldiers in a legion
  - elite infantry
  - recruited from Rome
- Punic Wars
-fought against Carthage