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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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• 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.