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History 107

History 107. “The Conflict of the Orders” Conquest of Italy The First Punic War. More Laws. 367 – Licinio-Sextian Laws. The Cursus honorum. Quaestor Aedile Praetor Consul Censor. Other changes of the 4 th-3rd century BC. Promagistracies Lifetime membership into Senate 339 –

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History 107

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  1. History 107 “The Conflict of the Orders” Conquest of Italy The First Punic War

  2. More Laws... • 367 – Licinio-Sextian Laws

  3. The Cursus honorum • Quaestor • Aedile • Praetor • Consul • Censor

  4. Other changes of the 4th-3rd century BC • Promagistracies • Lifetime membership into Senate • 339 – • 300 – • 290 – • 287 – Lex Hortensia

  5. Expansion into southern Italy • 285 – Thurii appeals to Rome for help against Lucanians • 282 – Romans enter gulf of Tarentum

  6. “Pyrrhic Victories” • 280-279 – • 275 – • 272 – • Rome now controls much of Italian peninsula

  7. Hellenism and Rome • Conquest of Tarentum – greatly extended contact • Art • Literature • Philosophy and Rhetoric

  8. Carthage • Military, trading power • Government

  9. First Punic War • 264BC war breaks out • Rome allows itself to become embroiled in local problems • Appius Claudius Caudex supports treaty with Mamertines, is elected consul 264 • Romans expel Carthaginians from Messana, defeat allied Syracusan and Carthaginian forces

  10. Why war?

  11. First Punic War • 263-262: • 261: • 260: • 258:

  12. First Punic War • 256: Romans invade Africa • 255: • 254-249: • 249:

  13. First Punic War • 247-244: Hamilcar Barca leads Carthaginians to point of victory • 244-241: • 242: final Roman victory at Aegates Islands

  14. Terms of Peace and Consequences • Carthage evacuates Sicily • Indemnity of • Rome becomes major power of Western Mediterranean region

  15. Developments after the First Punic War • 240-238 – • 238 – • 237-226 – • 226 –

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