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Geography

Mediterranean Sea

• The sea that touches nearly all parts of the Greek world.

• It is almost completely surrounded by land.

• It covers about 2.5 million square km.

• It was an important trade rout in ancient times.

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Tiber Island

• The Tiber Island is a small island in the middle of the Tiber River.

• The Tiber Island is connected on both sides by two bridges.

• Romans made a story that the Tiber Islands foundations are the wheat of a hated tyrant.



Expansion

• Rome started as a very small city and grew into a massive ancient superpower.

• Rome conquered all of Italy and the surrounding land.

• Rome eventually conquered Greece and Gaul.

• Rome had a couple of battles with Carthage the. other superpower, and eventually won



Hills

• Rome was built on seven hills, giving them a good defensive spot for a city.

• The rich lived up high, out of the smelly streets, on these hills

• Many important buildings were built on these hills.

• Quirinal, Viminal, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Caelian, and Aventine are the names of the hills



Religion

Etruscan Mythology

• The Etruscan belief was polytheism.

• They believed all visible amazing things that happened were manifestation of divine power.

• There are believed to be three layers of this religion.

• There are many gods, like in Greek and Roman religion.



Christianity

• Christians believe in God, and that Jesus came and died for our sins.

• Many Christians were wrongfully killed by Nero, who claimed they started a fire out of hatred of humanity.

• The Christians stayed true to their beliefs, even facing death, witch made many people believe it was a good religion.

• Eventually, Christianity became the official religion of Rome.



Roman Religion

• Romans believed that there was two twin brothers named Romulus and Remus that were raised by a she wolf, then Romulus founded Rome.

• The Romans believed in many gods, like the Greek.

• The roman religion is basically the Greek religion with different names.



Judaism

• Judaism in ancient Rome was divided into fore different sects.

• Saledus, aristocratic Jews who went with roman government.

• Pharisees, strict adherents to Jewish law.

• Essenes, messianic group that lived in small communities.

• Zealots, militaristic that was openly hostile to Rome.



Achievements

System of laws

• The Romans had a reliable system of laws that was much like ours.

• If you are accused of breaking the law you go to court.

• They had specific court houses, like us.



Aqueducts

• Aqueducts bring water to dry places to help that place survive.

• Ancient roman aqueducts are made of stone and have many arches for support.

• Roman aqueducts were long and well constructed.

• Many Roman cities would have failed without aqueducts.



Network of Roads

• Roam had a great system of roads to make travel and trade easier.

• Most Roman roads were paved.

• Huge roads aloud trade from distant places.

• These roads helped expand Roam.



Greater Freedom for Women

• In most early societies women had little rights.

• In Roam women could work in government and be independent.

• This was a great step forward in women rights

• I believed this helped Roam succeed.



Politics

Kings

• The first king of Rome was Romulus.

• An Etruscan leader named Tarquin became Rome’s king.

• The Etruscan kings ruled with the Roman aristocrats.



Roman Republic• The Roman Republic had a

tripartite, the Senate, the magistrates, and the assemblies.

• Magistrates represented the tradition of monarchy, and were the main officials of the Roman Republic.

• The senate represented the tradition of oligarchy, and had 300 members.

• The Centuriate and the tribal Assemblies represented democracy in Rome.



Rule by Emperors

• From 493 B.C. to 180 A.D. Rome was ruled by emperors.

• Augustus was an emperor that increased and encouraged learning.

• Nero was an insane emperor that managed to create a certain level of stability in Rome.

• Trajen was an emperor that expanded the empire and lowered taxes.



Death In Politics

• Many people in power in ancient Rome were assassinated.

• Nero killed his mom because he thought she was interfering to much with his rule.

• Tiberius had solders sent after him and was killed.

• Caesar was stabbed in the back.



Economy

Trade

• Rome required a lot of money to run, and trade created much of that wealth.

• Rome had many sea routs in the Mediterranean and numerous routs by land.

• There was only one type of currency, so trade was easy.

• After the inflation, many people began to barter instead of using money.



Inflation

• Inflation began after the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

• Rome stopped conquering new places, so the gold received lowered.

• The amount of gold in each coin decreased.

• Many people began to barter.



Urban Decay

• Most Romans lived in small, smelly rooms in apartment like buildings called islands.

• The islands covered an entire city block.

• The higher a family went the cheaper the rooms.

• Many people lived out on the streets.



Unemployment

• Wealthy land owners used slaves to farm.

• Slaves could produce goods cheaply, so the goods could be sold for less.

• Normal farmers could not mach the prices of the goods produced by slaves.

• Thousands of unemployed men and women came to major cities looking for a job.



Social Structure

Leaders

• Leaders such as emperors were at the top of the social pyramid.

• Leaders had large palaces with many luxury goods.

• Rulers and leaders had vast power over many people.



Patricians

• The highly privileged aristocratic class.

• People could only be patricians from birth.

• The name comes from the Latin word “patres” witch means father.

• Patricians claim to be descendants of the earliest members of the Roman Senate.



Plebeians

• The root plebei comes from pleb meaning common people.

• Plebeians were all Romans who weren’t patricians.

• Patricians were forbidden to marry plebeians, so there wasn’t any change of class.



Slaves

• Roman slaves were men and women born or sold into slavery.

• There was no racial distinction of slaves.

• Some slaves could build up money and eventually buy their freedom.

• Slaves were the property, by law, of their owner.



• I believe the most important thing I learned about ancient Rome was the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic has the most similarities to our lives today. The Roman Republic was also a big part of Rome's history. I also thought it was a very interesting subject. This is why I thought the Roman Republic was the most important thing we learned.

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