In Class 4-26-11

In class today we ended our chapters on Greece and began to move on to Rome. Since Mr. Schick was all sick and such we had to read about Rome and of course, my computer decides not to work with the PDF file that was sent, so it took an extra 15 minutes just for me to start. After the reading there were questions on it, but since I couldn't get it to my computer I had to write it all down.

Republic: A political unit NOT ruled by a monarch, but is ruled by a leader chosen by the people. NOT a democracy because a republic votes for representatives and a democracy votes straight to the leaders

Gravitas: A virtue someone has if they are discipline, strong, and loyal


Pater Familias: "Father of the Family" He had power over his whole family and legally could kill someone in his family if need be.


Toga: A loose outer garment that basically drapes over the person


Patrician: A specially family, known to be a very privileged class. They believed that they are born from the founders of Rome.


Plebeian: A common person like a farmer, artisian, or a merchant


Legion: A massive military unit, consisting of 4 to 6 thousand men


Century: A sub group within the legion holding around 80 people per group and a legion consisted of 60 centuries


Italy: The peninsula that holds the city-state of Rome


Rome: A very successful city-state inside of Italy


Romulus: One of the twins, parented by the god Mars, and Rhea Silvia. Him and his brother Remus were put in a basket to float down the Tiber River in hopes that they would drown.


Palatine Hill: The hill that Romulus chose to be the center of Rome


Alps:


Tiber River: The river that the jealous Latin King set Romulus and Remus down to kill them


Apennines: A lower mountain range running down the length of Italy


Latins: People that walked across the Alps in 1000 B.C. and settled on either side of the Tiber River


Etruscans: Another group of wanderers that settled in Northern Italy between 1200 B.C. and 800 B.C.


Forum: The heart of Roman political life


#1: Geography was so important to Rome because Italy is right in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, so basically it was a trading gold mine. Also being right on the shore was important because they could then see oncoming threats from the sea against them.

#2: Greeks, Latins, and Etruscans are all important to Roman development because it took pieces of all three customs to make one great one, like what Alexander the Great did.

#3: Early Rome had a set of values that dealt mainly with strength, loyalty, and discipline.

#4: Roman households the same in most houses. The men were the leaders of the house and did what they wanted, and the women was respected, and kept things moving around the house and cooked and such.

#5: Roman army effected society because all men were required to join.