Transcript The Kings, Tarquins and Early Republic

The Kings, Tarquins and Early
Republic
Name five Founding Fathers?
Romulus
• Responsible for beginning
Rome’s development
• Established the 100 patres,
founding the patrician class
and senate
• Made Capitoline Hill an asylum
for fugitives w/o women
• Rape of Sabine women
happened under him, Roman
men raided a Sabine festival
and carried off the women,
convince women to stay on
their own before a war breaks
out, two groups merge
Titus Tatius
• Leader of the Sabines
lived at same time as
Romulus
• Enlarged the city
• Started several
religious cults
Numa Pompilius
• Founded religious
temples and offices
– Vestal Virgins
– Pontifus maximus,
chief priest of Rome
• Possibly a Sabine
leader as well
Tullus Hostilius
• Established Rome’s
Senate house the
Curia Hostilia
• Conquered Alba
Longa a city founded
by Aeneas’ son
• Vicious warrior, word
hostile traced back to
how he treated
people
Ancus Marcius
• Enlarged Rome’s
territorial control by
capturing Etruscan
land to the North
• Captured port of Ostia
Tarquinius Priscus
• Also know as Tarquin the
Elder, came to Rome
from Etruria, bringing
Etruscan customs, culture
and builders w/ them
• Built earliest public works,
temples on Capitoline hill,
a public sewer, fought
wars with neighboring
cities
• Arrogant made enemies
of the royal clans
Servius Tullius
• A slave in the Tarquin
household, became
king when a Tarquin
was murdered
• Remembered as mild
and kind, instituted
the census and the
assembly
• Built a wall around
Rome still called the
Servian wall
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
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Known as Tarquin the Proud, urged by
wife to assassinate her father Servius,
left his body in the street, let his wife
drive her chariot over her dead father’s
body
Last king of Rome, driven out by
aristocrats for being cruel and arrogant
and is son Sextus raping , Lucretia
who had been doing the right things
and even entertained him as a guest
Lucretia told her husband and then
killed her self to right the matter, led to
a rebellion against the Tarquins led by
Brutus, who had acted liked an idiot to
avoid being killed
Brutus became one of 1st consuls,
killed his own sons for trying to returns
the Tarquins to Power
The Republic
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The Senate made up of 300 upper
class men called patricians,
common citizens called plebeians
Only patricians could hold office,
led by 2 consuls, senate advised
consuls who then ruled, consuls
had veto power which means I
forbid
Dictators could be appointed in an
emergency, most famous
Cincinnatus who was plowing his
fields left to lead the army and
returned to his mule in one day
Longest rule by a dictator was
Sulla who ruled and took the
power away from the Senate and
Patricians for two yrs
Last Dictator was Julius Caesar