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By: Susan M.

Pojer
Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY
The Geography of Rome
Italy in 750 BCE
Influence of the Etruscans
 Writing
 Religion
 The Arch
The Mythical Founding of
Rome:
Romulus & Remus
Republican Government
2 Consuls
(Rulers of Rome)

Senate
(Representative body for patricians)

Tribal Assembly
(Representative body for plebeians)
The Twelve Tables, 450 BCE

 Providing political and social


rights for the plebeians.
The Roman Forum
Rome’s Early Road System
Roman Roads:
The Appian Way
Roman Aqueducts
The Roman Colosseum
The Colosseum Interior
Circus Maximus
Carthaginian Empire
Hannibal’s Route
Reform Leaders
 Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

• the poor should be given grain


and small plots of free land.

Military Reformer
 Gaius Marius

• recruited an army from the poor


and homeless.
• professional standing army.
Civil War & Dictators

Julius Caesar

Pompey
Crossing the Rubicon, 49 BC

The Die is Cast!


The First Triumvirate

 Julius Caesar

 Marcus Licinius Crassus

 Gaius Magnus Pompey


Beware the Ides of March!
44 BCE
The Second Triumvirate

 Octavian Augustus

 Marc Antony

 Marcus Lepidus
Octavian Augustus:
Rome’s First Emperor
The First Roman
Dynasty
Pax Romana: 27 BCE – 180 CE
The Greatest Extent of the
Roman Empire – 14 CE
The Rise of Christianity
St. Paul:
Apostle to the Gentiles
The Spread of Christianity
Imperial Roman Road System
The Empire in Crisis: 3c
Diocletian Splits the
Empire in Two: 294 CE
Constantine: 312 - 337
Constantinople: “The 2nd
Rome” (Founded in 330)
Barbarian Invasions: 4c-5c
Attila the Hun:
“The Scourge of God”
Byzantium:
The Eastern Roman Empire
The Byzantine Empire
During the Reign of Justinian
The Byzantine Emperor
Justinian
The Legacy of Rome
 Republic Government
 Roman Law
 Latin Language
 Roman Catholic Church
 City Planning
 Romanesque Architectural Style
 Roman Engineering
• Aqueducts
• Sewage systems
• Dams
• Cement
• Arch

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