Last history quiz!! (Rome)

Rome creation myth-Romulus and Remus

One day his Amulius was very jealous of numitor he decided to steal being king from his brother.Than after becoming king, he realized that his brother's kid could try to take the throne. He had the kid killed. 

Then Numitor's daughter had two twin boys. The king had his servant take the kids to the river to be drowned. He put them in a crib and floated them down a river instead of drowning  them

A wolf found them and decided to adopt them and a bird helped provide food. 

A shepherd and his wife  decided to adopt them and named them Romulus and Remus. They both grew up in common lives, not knowing they were both the sons of a king.

When the two boys turned 18, Remus was arrested by the king's guards. Romulus and his grandfather got rid of the evil king. 

They got into a fight about where to build their new home. They decided to settle it with a challenge. After Remus decided to start building anyway. Remus  jumped over a wall laughing. This made Romulus angry so he decided to kill Remus.

Roman Origin

Cultural pieces

-Fierce

-Group

-Money not important

-Emotional-passion

Cincinnatus-what did he do?

He made Rome a better place.

He ordered all the shops to be closed and asked anyone in military age to join the military.

He brought victory and piece

Cincinnatus myth

Cincinnatus was falling into hard times. He spent his days farming in a field. He was surrounded by not so nice neighbors.

Rome's leader was trapped on a mountain and wasn't able to lead Rome. So they offered the position of a dictator to Cincinnatus. He decided to take it and make Rome a better place

The first thing he did was, he ordered all shops to be closed. 

Then he asked for all people within the military age to come in armor for the war.

When he came back home everyone had a big parade for him and honored him.

Cursus Honorum-Effects on potential leaders

Ambition, service and becoming the best

Skills-Brave, smart with money, good speaker, good judgement

Partition

In the Roman republic,a member of the upper ruling class

Plebian

One of the common people

Republic

A form of government in which leaders are elected to represent people

Senate

A group of 300 men to govern rome

Consul

One of the 2 chief leaders in Rome

Tribune

An official of Rome elected by plebians to represent them

Veto

To refuse to approve proposals of government

Consitution

A set of basic laws

The difference in house-poor and rich

Poor-Apartments, not safe, not good access

Rich-Private villas

The difference in food-poor and rich

Poor-rancid cereal

rich-Fancy food made by slaves

The difference in floors-poor and rich

Poor-top floors

rich-first floor

The difference in hours of work days-poor and rich

Poor-6 hour works days

rich-Only in the morning

The difference in baths-poor and rich

Poor-public baths

Rich-Private baths

The difference in Educations-poor and rich

Poor-No Education

Rich-Education

The difference in Leisure hours-poor and rich

Poor-had to work after leisure hours

rich-Stopped working after

The difference in when they die-poor and rich

Poor-Died early

Rich-Lived a long life

The difference in Seating arrangements-poor and rich

Poor-sat in back

Rich-Sat in front

First expansion

Rome became a Republic

wanted more land

Defensive

Eventually covered the entire Italian peninsula

Punic wars, result of 1st war

Rome gained sicily

Punic wars, result of 2nd war

Rome won, took Spain and north africa

Punic wars, result of 3rd war

Carthage destroyed

Collapse of the republic

Punic wars-Needed money-Raise taxes-Sell land-No Job-Join the army-Paid Generals-Generals fight power