Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Test Tommorow and Rome Song


Today in class we first talked about that we will have a test tommorow on Lo1 and LO2. Then we talked more about the information in the Rome song
Rome Song information:
  • The government would give the poor Romans food and entertained them with gladiator fights
    • circus maximus was a big huge stadium that seated about 100,000 people. It was oval shaped. Chariot races went on there
  • The Gracus brothers came along and told the government that people were being treated unfairly
    • they were members of the assembly
    • they said the solution was: they rich who had so many acres of land and made alot of money should give some of there land( dont have to give all) back to the people that they bought it from
Things on Test:
  • Senate
  • Republic
  • Plebeians and patricians 
  • Democracy, Monarchy, aristocracy 
  • democracy was represented by the assembly/ people in assembly were called tribunes
  • Aristocracy was represented by the senate
  • The monarchy was represented by two leaders in charge
    • only in charge for one yer
  • If there was a crisis there was one dictator in charge for six months
  • Punic Wars
  • tarquins son raped a woman who was a matron named laquicha 

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