Rome

Do Now (U4D4) December 2, 2013

Read and analyze “Do Now: Geography and Peoples of Rome.” Then answer the questions on the back.

Pivotal Question 1: What is the significance of the seven hills, Tiber River, and the Appian Way?

Pivotal Question 2: Who are the people that make up the Romans?

Roman Peoples

By 800: the Latins migrated into Italy and settled along the Tiber River

Romans shared Italy with other peoplesGreek colonists who lived in southern Italy

Etruscans who lived in the North

Romans and the Etruscans

Romans learned much from the EtruscansAdopted Etruscan alphabet that the Etruscans earlier acquired from the Greeks

Building with the Arch

Etruscans

Etruscan vs. Roman Alphabet

Romans takes ever

Romans drove out the Etruscan ruler in 509 BCE

Marks the beginning of Rome

New Romans set up a Repubic, or a “thing of the people”

Romans believed that a Republic would prevent any one person from obtaining all the power

Roman Republic

Made up of Senate, Consuls, and Dictator (in war time)

Senate: 300 patricians (landowner upper class)

Consul: 2 patricians (only in power for one year to limit their influence

Dictator: In war time, one person selected for absolute rule for six months

Most famous dictator was Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus

Plebeians demand Equality

At first, all government officals were patricians

PLEBEIANS: farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders had little say even though they were the majority

This changes in 450 BCECreation of the Law of the Twelve Tables

Plebes form a Tribune, which represented their interests against the Patricians and could VETO laws they felt unfair to plebeian interests

Pivotal Question: How did the Law of the Twelve Tables influence the relationship between Patricians and Plebeians?

Summary Question

What was the major achievement of the Roman Republic?