Transcript Roman History Timeline: A glance

-Rapid expansion from being a small “farm village”
- How Does this Happen?
Rome vs. Carthage: 3 Punic Wars
1. Defeats Carthage in 246 BC.gains islands and part of N Africa
2. Defeats Hannibal in 2nd war. Over 15 years. Remember the elephants!
3. 3rd and final war with Carthage: Utterly destroy Carthage. Sow with salt!
Rome Rules the
Mediterranean
Rome commits to a
policy of imperialism.
Confronts and defeats
“heirs of Alexander
the Great in the east
Macedonia, Egypt,
Greece, Asia Minor,
Syria annexed
-Civil wars : due to conquests, generals begin to compete for
spoils and supreme power imperium.
- Enter Julius Caesar- Eventual overthrow of the Republic.
-Slave labor increases due to conquests, and prisoners. This
hurts farmers. Also, slaves become a threat.
- Many from the country come to Rome for work. Chaos in
the city. However spoil taken during wars have made the city
very rich!
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Power!
All this
Conquest
makes me
GREEDY
for
MORE!!!!
 The Roman Republic
declines
- Legions (armies) are no longer
volunteers. Paid professionals.
Loyal to their generals, not the
Senate and People of Rome.
As civil wars are going
on, a Major slave
revolt takes place, led
by the slave-gladiator
Spartacus
However, Spartacus
fails. 6000 slaves
who took part in the
revolt are crucified
along the roadsides.
-Ambitious : Conquers Gaul (France) : veni vedi veci
- Triumvirate ruler (shares power) of Republic
- Civil war with fellow ruler Pompey
-Defeats Pompey. Begins to make many reforms.
- Is assassinated in the as he enters the Senate House.
-Julius Caesar’s great nephew. Defeats Mark Antony and
Cleopatra.
-Builds a stable with himself at the top
-Senate is now an “ornament” with virtually no power.
-Better tax system
- Organizes army
- Finds Rome “built of wood, leaves it built of marble”
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The Good , the Bad, The
really Bad!
Tiberius
Nero. Didn’t
really fiddle
while Rome
burned
Caligula
Hadrian
Wrote
Meditations
Commodus.
Marcus Aurelius
Roman World is essentially at
Peace for almost 200 years,
with a few skirmishes her and
there.
Well… actually there were
quite a few blow out wars!
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Circus MaximusChariot races
Coliseum –
gladiators, naval fights,
animal slaughters
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By the time of the emperor Caligula, Romans had over 150 different
holidays a year!