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ROME Impero Romano and the Rise of CHRISTIANITY

ROME Impero Romano and the Rise of CHRISTIANITY. Chapter 5. I taly. USA. EUROPE. Mediterranean Sea. AFRICA. GEOGRAPHY. Continent: Europe. GEOGRAPHY . Peninsula: Italian or Apennine . GEOGRAPHY . Mountains: Apennine. Appenine / Italian Peninsula

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ROME Impero Romano and the Rise of CHRISTIANITY

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  1. ROME Impero Romano and the Rise ofCHRISTIANITY Chapter 5

  2. Italy USA

  3. EUROPE Mediterranean Sea AFRICA

  4. GEOGRAPHY • Continent: Europe

  5. GEOGRAPHY • Peninsula: Italian or Apennine

  6. GEOGRAPHY • Mountains: Apennine

  7. Appenine / Italian Peninsula Appenine Mountains

  8. GEOGRAPHY • Farming plains: north – Po River Valley middle – Latium (Rome) south - Campania

  9. Po River Valley Latium Rome Campania Mediterranean Sea

  10. R 0 M E • Location on peninsula (good for expansion): central • Miles inland (safer from pirates): 18

  11. Rome

  12. R 0 M E • River (sea access, easy crossing): Tiber • Built on hills (easily defended): 7

  13. INDO EUROPEANS • North: Eturia – Etruscans dress – toga, short cloak; army organization; came to control Rome

  14. toga

  15. INDO EUROPEANS • Middle, hills of Latium:Latins spoke Latin, herders-farmers

  16. LATIN • E pluribus unum One out of many • Carpe diem Seize the day • Et tu, Brute? Even you, Brutus?

  17. INDO EUROPEANS • South, Sicily: Greeks olives, grapes, alphabet, arts

  18. Latin/Roman alphabet

  19. Roman numerals

  20. Etruscans Latins Greeks

  21. REPUBLIC • 509 B.C.:Roman Republic • 261 B.C. - peninsula conquered by: Etruscans

  22. REPUBLIC • Formed the: Roman Confederation conquered were made allies and allowed to rule themselves, but must provide soldiers

  23. REPUBLIC • Roman historian: Livy • Model for a hero: Cincinnatus

  24. Cincinnatus Cincinnati, Ohio

  25. GOVERNMENT • Landowners, ruling class:patricians • Craftspeople, merchants, small farmers:plebeians • Men from both classes could vote as:citizens

  26. GOVERNMENT • Group of 300 patricians, served for life, whose advice became law:Senate • Rome’s first code of laws:Twelve Tables

  27. GOVERNMENT • Example for U.S. law: Law of Nations

  28. LAW OF NATIONS • innocent until proven guilty • accused allowed to defend himself • judged by evidence

  29. AMENDMENT VI “…the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury … to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process of obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.”

  30. PUNIC WARS • Punic – Latin for:Phoenician • Phoenician colony in north Africa (part of west Mediterranean empire):Carthage • West Sicily (part of Carthaginian empire) attacked by:Rome

  31. EUROPE Carthage AFRICA

  32. PUNIC WARS • Carthaginian General: Hannibal crossed Alps on elephants to invade Rome • Conquered all of Carthaginian empire and eastern Mediterranean: Romans

  33. Hannibal crosses the Alps to conquer Rome using “battle elephants”

  34. TRIUMVIRATES • Government by 3 people with equal power: triumvirate • First Triumvirate, 60 B.C.: Crassus, Pompey, and: Julius Caesar

  35. TRIUMVIRATES • Gained complete control, named dictator, 45 B.C.:Caesar • Gave land to poor, increased Senate to:900 • 44 B.C. event portrayed in Shakespeare’s play: Caesar’s assassination

  36. TRIUMVIRATES • Second Triumvirate - Lepidus, Marc Antony, and:Octavian • Antony allied with Egyptian queen:Cleopatra

  37. Cleopatra

  38. TRIUMVIRATES • Won the empire: Octavian • Named imperator – our word for:emperor

  39. TRIUMVIRATES • 31 B.C. – A.D. 14 : Age of Augustus

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