Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Today in West Civ we basically just took notes. I will be pasting the notes right now so i can study from my blog.-2 Main groups who settles in Rome, Italy
*-The very first people to settle in Rome were the Latin's
-the Etruscans and the Greeks were the second 2
-on the Tiber River, seven hills, good for transportation, drinking water
-thought in the middle of the world, thought they were in a perfect location, on the water, in the hills thought they couldn’t go wrong
-one of the first things they did when they became more situated was they drained part of the land that was swampy wet, and not good to build things on- very effective since they did this they were able to build more
  • Diverted the flow from river to bigger river
  • Building, dam, canals
*-Tarquin the Proud- last king that they saw in Rome
-didn’t feel like he had to listen to people, didn’t listen to anyone
-don’t forget about Tarquin the Proud
Res publica- Latin for "the peoples business"
-word republic comes from this

*Republic
  1. Democracy
  2. Monarchy
  3. Aristocracy, like the senate

-instead of a king there would be 2 consuls

3 forms of government
Judicial
Legislative- Congress- senate, house of representatives
Executive- president

-Romans had 300 senators back then, we have 100 now
-438 house of representatives, today,
-every state as a bunch of house of reps
  • California, New York

Plebeians- regular people
Patricians- rich people, land, money
Slaves- almost a third of population









 

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