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Rome

Rome . Allison, Emily, Shelby. C-D Model. State-level government High agricultural potential Environmental mosaic Power vacuum Antagonism among surrounding states Adequate military resources. C-D Model.

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Rome

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  1. Rome Allison, Emily, Shelby

  2. C-D Model State-level government High agricultural potential Environmental mosaic Power vacuum Antagonism among surrounding states Adequate military resources

  3. C-D Model • Reason a state successfully builds an empire is ideology emphasizing identification with state, militarism, and conquest. • Rewards: • Economic • Population increase

  4. C-D Model, Fall of Empires • Reasons for collapse of empires: • Ideology—conquest, expansion doesn’t stop • Failure of expansion erodes faith in ideology • Revolution

  5. Political • Made up of Senate and Consuls • Active citizenship • Military • Ownership • Polis, part of everyday life. • Before: • Consuls shared power, subjected to checks by nobles. • After • power was confided to dictators.

  6. Political • Supported a religion • Public ceremonies • Laws • One thing that held territories together • Regulated social life. • Citizenship • Intended restrain upper-class to subject themselves to common principles.

  7. Social • Philosophers: Aristotle, Plato, Socrates • Exports • Building patterns, wine, olive oil. • Discovered cement • Roads, sewers, aqueducts, etc. • Public baths, amphitheaters, walls, etc.

  8. Social • Religion • Father god, Jupiter. • Other gods for everyday passages. • Lack of passion, turned off people, especially during chaos and distress. • Literature • Sophocles • Homer • Iliad and Odyssey.

  9. Economic • Commercial Farming • South • Led to soil depletion • Pottery • Used to transport wine.

  10. Economic • Trade • Art • Grain • Luxury Products • Received spices and art from the East, in return traded animal skins, metals, and exotic animals.

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