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T H E R O M A N R E P U B L I C

The Age of the

Romans

Early Rome

 Aeneas & Troy  Romulus & Remus The Archaeological Record Founding of Rome ( BCE) The Forum (625 BCE)

The Early Roman Republic

 No More Etruscan Kings (509 BCE)  Balanced Constitution 2 Consuls  (^) imperium The Senate  Assemblies  (^) Centuriate Assembly  (^) Tribal Assembly  (^) Quaestors & Aediles

The Struggle of the Orders

 Patricians  Plebeians  Tribunes  (^) XII Tables (450 BCE) Plebeian Consuls ( BCE) Plebeian Assembly

Organization

 Degrees of Privilege & Responsibility  Power of Roman Citizenship  System of Confederation Chain of Alliances Stimulus of Loyalty

The Age of Mediterranean Conquest

 Carthage & the Phoenicians (ca. 700 BCE)  The First Punic War (264 – 241 BCE) Messana, Sicily Sardinia (238 BCE) Corsica

The Third Punic War (149-146)  Masinissa, King of Numidia  Marcus Cato  Carthage Seized and Burned (146) Roman Province of Africa Conquest of Spain (133)

Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean  Philip V of Macedonia (r. 221-179 BCE)  Hannibal  Seleucid Empire Battle of Magnesia (190 BCE) Grec0-Macedonian Province (146 BCE) Attalus III of Pergamum

The Provinces and the Equestrians

 Provincia = “a duty assigned to a magistrate” Proconsul Efficiency  Control  Financial Support Equites