Transcript Social Order of the Republic of Rome 500 – 60 B.C.

Government & Social Order of
the Republic of Rome 500 – 60
B.C.
Dr. East 1/28
Debate at
the “Forum”
Rome’s
Armies
“Legions”
• 5000 +
strong with
foot soldiers
and cavalry
Rome Legions Conquer Lands
Beyond the City of Rome
• Borrowed military strategy from the Greeks
– Hoplites and armor
• Copied Legion battle formations from Etruscans
• By 265 BC, Roman legions had conquered most
of Italy
• Rome’s central location made it an excellent
seafaring nation
• Conflicted with other, older places like Carthage,
across the Mediterranean sea
• Battles between
Rome and Carthage
• 1rst one began 264 B.C.
over control of Sicily and
western Mediterranean …
Carthage lost
• 2nd one began 218 B.C.
Hannibal marched men
and elephants up and
around Rome but never
captured it
• The war ended in 202
BC. When the Roman
General Scipio laid siege
to Carthage forcing
Hannibal to return to
defend it.
• 3rd war began in 149 B.C.
when Rome again laid
siege to Carthage and set
the city on fire and forcing
all it’s people into
slavery…
• Outcome of these wars
solidified Rome’s
dominance over the
Mediterranean.
Punic Wars, 3 of
them, 264-146 B.C.
Battle Elephants… Heck Yes!