Republican Rome

Republican Rome

\-every free male was a citizen, but not every citizen enjoyed equal privledges

\-senate was only made of patricians + patricians were immune to plebeian laws(plebliscites)

\-the expulsion of the Etruscan kings and the dedication of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill marked the beginning of the Roman Republic

Patronage

Every plebeian chose a patrician as his patron

Roman Rule

\-the republic embarked on the punic wars that recall Alexander’s imperial adventuring the century before

\-the republic advanced against Carthage

Carthage

Controller most of the wealth of the western Mediterranean

Hannibal

Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

Trimitive

Pompey, Gaius, Julius Caesar

Veni, vidi, vici

I came, I saw, I conquered

Rhetorician

A weighted or orator

One of the most powerful figures

Marcus Tullis Cicero

Verism

Truth