1. THE GLORY THAT WAS ROME FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE

3. ROMAN INFLUENCES GOVERNMENT CANNONS OF LAW BASIS OF LANGUAGE LEGAL SYSTEM

4. ROMULUS AND REMUS MYTHOLOGICAL BROTHERS THAT WANDERED OFF AND BECAME LOST THEY WERE RAISED BY A SHE WOLF ROMULUS KILLS HIS BROTHER REMUS IT IS FOR ROMULUS THAT ROME GETS IT’S NAME

6. ROMAN REPUBLIC BEGAN IN 509 BC AND LASTED UNTIL 31 BC RULED BY A SENATE OF 2 HOUSES (BICAMERAL) PATRICIANS - 200 FAMILIES DESENDED FROM EARLY ROME

8. ROMAN GOVERNMENT CONSULS: 2 CHOSEN BY SENATE TO BE IN CHARGE FOR 1 YEAR, AFTER WHICH THEY HAD TO WAIT 5 YEARS TO RUN AGAIN DICTATOR: SENATE ELECTED FOR 6 MONTHS IN TIMES OF CRISIS

9. PLEBIANS: 90% OF POPULATION,INCLUDES MERCHANTS,SLAVES, FARMERS. THEY HAD NO LAND OR FAMILY NAME ONLY MALES COULD BE CITIZENS

10. GOVERNMENT PLEBIAN ASSEMBLY SENATE LOCAL MAGISTRATES

11. DAILY LIFE FAMILY #1 EARLY EDUCATION DONE AT HOME COMMERCE VERY IMPORTANT AS IS MANUFACTURING

14. PUNIC WARS CARTHAGE WAS LOCATED IN NORTH AFRICA IT WAS A POWERFUL CITY-STATE THAT THREATENED THE ROMANS POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ROME HAS BEST ARMY IN THE WORLD CARTHAGE HAS THE BEST NAVY IN THE WORLD

16. PUNIC WARS ROME V. CARTHAGE THREE WARS 264-146 BC WARS FOUGHT OVER EXPANSION AND TRADING POWER

18. 1ST PUNIC WAR 264-241 BC 23 YEARS HAMILICAR BARCA LEADER OF CARTHAGE ROME COPIES CARTHAGES NAVAL SHIPS BUT ADDS A RAMP WITH A SPIKE ROMANS INVADE SICILIY, SARDINIA, CORSICA, BECOME VASTLY MORE WEALTHY

19. RESULTS OF 1ST PUNIC WAR THE AREAS BETWEEN CARTHAGE & ROME BECOME A POWDER KEG ROME LOST 20,000 MEN CARTHAGE ANY WHERE FROM 400,000 TO 500,000 MEN

20. 2ND PUNIC WAR HAMLICAR DIES AND HANNIBAL WHO WAS RAISED TO HATE THE ROMANS TAKE COMMAND ALONG WITH HASHDRUBAL THEY LEAD AN ATTACK ON THE ROMANS IN SAGENTO IN 219 BC

22. 2ND PUNIC WAR HANNIBAL USES ELEPHANTS LIKE TANKS TO CROSS THE ALPS TRUMPETS TO ACTION!!!! HANNIBAL CAUGHT IN EARLY STORM 36 OF HIS 40 ELEPHANTS DIE AND HALF HIS MEN FREEZE TO DEATH BATTLE OF CANNAL—ROMANS ARE ROUTED BY THE ARMIES OF CARTHAGE (DEFENSE)

24. END OF 2ND PUNIC WAR IN 207 THE ROMANS CAPTURE AND BEHEAD HASDRUBAL THEY SEND IT TO HANNIBAL CAMP IN A SACK 202 Scipio Africanus decisively defeats Hannibal at Zama SCIPIO AFRICANUS: CONQUERER OF CARTHAGE—TOTALLY DESTROYED

25. RESULTS OF 2ND PUNIC WAR ROME AQUIRES: SPAIN, PORTUGAL, SAGENTO, MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF GOLD, WARSHIPS AND THEIR CARGO ROME LOSES 300,000 MEN CARTHAGE LOSES 600,000 MEN HANNIBAL FLEES TO ASIA MINOR AND IN 182 COMMITS SUICIDE REFUSING TO BECOME A PRISONER

26. 3RD PUNIC WAR CARTHAGE ATTACKS ROME IN 150 BC BUT ACTUALLY THE ROMANS HAD PAID PEOPLE TO ATTACK THEM SO AS TO JUSTIFY ANOTHER WAR WITH CARTHAGE ROME ATTACKS CARTHAGE IN NORTH AFRICA

28. TOWARDS AN EMPIRE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS CAUSED BY PUNIC WARS GRACCHUS BROTHERS=TIBERIUS AND GAIUS –PLEBIANS, SUGGESTED THAT SENATE SHOULD GIVE LAND TO THE POOR TIBERIUS CLUBED TO DEATH FOR HIS TROUBLES –SAME FATE FOR GAIUS FOR SUGGESTING POOR IN THE ARMY (ESACPED THROUGH SUICIDE)

29. CAIUS MARIUS: ELECTED TO THE TRIBUNE (THE PLEBIAN ASSEMBLY) STANDARDIZED WEAPONS, NEW TACTICS OF BATTLE CRUSHES THE TEUTONI IN GAUL (MODERN FRANCE) RETURNED TO ROME A HERO DIES AT AGE OF 60 AFTER DEFEATING A 20 YEAR OLD IN A 7 MILE RACE, IN WHICH HE GAVE THE KID A MILE HEAD START

30. SULLA: HE WILL PAVE THE ROAD FOR THE RISE OF JULIUS CAESAR DEFEATS MITHRIDATES IN ASIA MINOR AND BECAME ABSOLUTE MASTER OF ROME NAME TO POST OF DICTATOR AND UNLEASEHES HIS FURY ON THOSE WHO OPPOSED HIM 79 BC HE BECOMES DICTATOR FOR LIFE, ELIMINATES ALL COMPETITION

31. 1ST TRIUMVIRATE CAESAR, JULIUS POMPEY CRASSUS

33. POMPEY 77 BC APPOINTED TO DEAL WITH PIRATES IN THE MED. IN CONTROL WHEN THE REBELLION OF SPARTACUS TOOK PLACE CIVIL WAR BEGAN TO DOMINATE ROME

34. SPARTACUS: SLAVE BORN IN THRACE. WILL LEAD LARGEST SLAVE REBELLION IN ROMAN HISTORY BATIATUS OWNED CAPUA THE BEST GLADIATOR SCHOOL IN ALL OF ROME, BOUGHT SPARTACUS MARCELLUS ONE OF THE GREATEST GLADIATORS IN HISTORY, SURVUIVED 12 YEARS AND WON HIS FREEDOM, TRAINED SPARTACUS

35. JULIUS CAESAR WEALTHY PARTRICIAN GREAT POLITICAL LEADER 60 BC ALONG WITH CRASSUS & POMPEY FORMED THE 1 ST TRIUMVIRATE NONE OF THESE MEN TRUSTED EACH OTHER CRASSUS MOST WEALTHY LEAST TRUSTED

36. CAESAR MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER OFF TO POMPEY TWO LEADING SENATORS CICERO AND CATO WERE OPPONENTS OF THE TRIUMVIRATE CAESAR HAD THE KICKED OUT THREE MEN SEPARATE 53 BC CRASSUS DIES AND TRIUMVIRATE FALLS APART, POMPEY ALLIES WITH SENATE, BIG MISTAKE CAESAR FORCES OF CAESAR AND POMPEY GO TO WAR IN SPAIN—POMPEY WILL BE MURDERED IN EGYPT BY THE KING OF EGYPT, HIS HEAD GIVEN TO CAESAR AS A GIFT WHEN HE ARRIVES IN ALEXANDRIA. CAESAR TAKES EGYPTS KING HOSTAGE AND EVENTUALLY MUST FLEE EGYPT TO ESCAPE

37. CAESAR BECOMES EMPEROR EGYPT BECOMES ALLY 44 BC HE IS MADE DICTATOR FOR LIFE REFORMS ALL OF ROME –ABOLISHED POLITICAL PARTIES, REVISED TAXATION, TRIPLED THE SENATE, **PARTRICAINS HATED CAESAR**

38. IDES OF MARCH MADE RICH MAD BY RAISING TAXES ASSASSINATED: MARCH 15, 44 BC STABBED OVER 20 TIMES, HIS DEATH SIGNIFIED THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC

42. 2ND TRIUMVIRATE OCTAVIAN ANTONY: relative of Caesar LEPIDUS 1YR LATER OCTAVIAN RULES ALONE

43. AUGUSTUS CAESAR ALONG WITH ANTONY DEFEATED BRUTUS AND CRASSIUS, THE ASSASSIANS OF CAESAR ANTONY AND OCTAVIAN GO TO WAR OVER POWER, ANTHONY USES EGYPT AND CLEOPATRA TO BACK HIS PLAY DEFEATED MARC ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA AT BATTLE OF ACTIUM IN 31 BC

47. AUGUSTUS CAESAR OCTAVIAN CHANGES NAME TO AUGUSTUS CAESAR RULES DURING PAX ROMANA (ROMAN PEACE) VETOED ALL LAWS MADE BY SENATE

48. Pax Romana 200 of Roman peace Supported the growth of business and a monetary system Police and Fire departments organized Emperors were worshipped as gods and allowed to chose successors

49. ROMAN ADVANCES Police and fire protection Excellent roads Law innocent until proven guilty Aqueducts

50. Entertainment Plays Boxing Chariot Races Gladiators

51. SPORTING ARENAS OF ROME Coliseum Circus Maximus

56. DEATH OF OCTAVIAN Series of poor rulers Caligula: crazed-murderous Claudius: weak minded Nero: failed and Rome burned in civil unrest

57. Known as Caligula (Little Boot), a childhood nickname bestowed on him by the soldiers of his father, Germanicus Caesar, nephew and adoptive son of Tiberius.

58. Roman Leaders Vespasian: AD 69 Destroyed temple in Jerusalem Titus: Commanded legions against Jerusalem and Christians Trajan: 98-117 AD Colorful Emperor, noted for huge battle against Jews at Alexandria, Egypt 115-116 AD Hadrian: Builds Hadrian's wall

59. Marcus Aurelius: 161-180 AD Enlightened ruler Commodus: Megalomaniac murdered on Dec. 31 st 192 AD Diocletian: 284-305 AD Commander of Imperial guard that become Emperor Constantine I: Ruler of Rome that moved capital to Byzantium Romulus Augustus: 476 AD Last western Emperor of Rome

61. Persecution Christians killed by Romans Christianity banned Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity in 313

62. CHRISTIANITY MONOTHEISTIC BELIEF IN JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD AND THE TRUE MESSIAH TOTALLY FOREIGN TO THE ROMAN LEADERS TORTURED TO CONVERT AND USED AS SPORT FOR THE ROMANS AMUSEMENT (LIONS) ROME CONVERTS WITH CONSTANTINE

63. POPE HEAD OF THE LATIN CHURCH IN ROME (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH) VICAR OF CHRIST ON EARTH MOST POWERFUL CHRISTIAN LEADER ON EARTH THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES APPOINTED BY PETER THE ROCK OF GOD

65. Decline of the Roman Empire Political Instability Economic & Moral Decline Inflation Taxes Food shortage & Instability

66. The Roman empire will split in 330 AD with Constantine moving it’s capital to the city of Byzantium (Constantinople) It will fall to the Byzantines in 476 AD