4/8/14

Today in class we took some more notes about Roman. They included they following:

·         Three main groups that settled in Italy

·         The first people were the Latin's

·         The Etruscans and the Greeks

·         Rome was on the Tiber river

·         You get many things from the rivers

·         On seven hills

·         They drained part of the lands on the peninsula to make it not as marshy

·         Used it to build

·         This is the last king that Rome and Italy ever had his name was Tarquin the Proud

·         Res publica is Latin for peoples business

·         Republic:

                                                               i.      Democracy(there Assembly like our house of represtantives)

                                                             ii.      Monarchy (had 2 consuls, they could veto each other's suggestions)

                                                            iii.      Aristocracy(there senate like our senate)

·         Plebeians- middle class/lower class

·         Patricians- rich and the aristocrats, owned money and land

·         Slaves

·         Assembly- this is for plebeians the people they elected were called tribunes.

·         Senate was only a man of petitions

·         When the USA was thinking about their government we looked at the way the Romans did it.

·         Consuls were like presidents