Notes on Rome Song

• The Etruscans, Greeks, and Latins settled in Rome
• Latins came first and they gave us the language we have now and the alphabet
• The River Tiber flowed in the middle of the peninsula 
• Tarquin was the last King of Rome
• He was an old school tyrant
• very mean and harsh
• Romans overthrew him
• what threw the Romans over the edge was the Tarquin had a son who raped a nice and important woman and Tarquin did nothing about it. The woman was so shamed that she committed suicide.
• When the Romans got ride of Tarquin they got ride of a monarchy
• Res Publica= the word republic comes from this word/ means peoples affair
• Patricians: rich, wealthy, and are established, and connected,politically active, and landowners
• Plebeians: could be wealthy with no connection, normal people
• Romans government:
• Aristocracy= formed senate, 300 men, make laws and interpret laws
• Democracy=called the assembly/ people in the assembly are called tributes
• The people demanded that the laws became public so they wrote the 12 tables with the laws and punishments in the forem
• Monarchy= make decisions quick, consuls were the people in the monarchy/ there were 2 consuls/ they were choosen by the senate/ consuls could veto any laws/ consuls were only there were one year
• The united States based their government of the Romans except united states added the judicial branch
• Romans were around so long because they had a great army
• there army was well trained and feared
• there army was called the roman legion 
• had about 5000 soldiers per legion
• the soldiers did not get payed they joined the army becuase it was there duty 
• modeled themselves like the Greeks
• Romans version of the Greeks phlanx was called the century
• Romans used javelins instead of the Greek spear
• Roman military used cruciffiction to punish people and they were the ones who killed Jesus
• At one point in Rome 1/3 of the population were slaves
• If slaves were going to revolt the Romans would crucify the leaders of the revolt and put them on the side of the main rodes
• Punic wars were fought between Rome and Carthage
• Carthage wanted to control Sicily 
• Rome wins the first punic wars