ChiCago

Today in class we starting taking notes on Ancient Rome. We had a guest visitor today and his name was ChiCago, (Mr. Schick) he is related to Flo-Rida. He came in and rapped for us about Ancient Rome. Half the class videotaped his performance, while the other half was to busy laughing. Other than that, these are the notes we took today:

Ancient Rome:
 - Ninth Century- Etrusans, Greeks & Latins made settlements near Tiber River
-The Latins first
City State and Empire:
- Italy and its peoples
   - Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome
-Romulus and Remus (How Rome came to be)
-Etruscan settled in north part of Italy
-Rome is set up as a city-state
-Romans influenced by Greeks (Gods, government, battle formation, etc...)
-Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders called the "Senate"
-500 B.C. the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a "Republic"
-Since the Senate was populated only by patricians and plebians fought for a vote in Rome's government
-Each year the Senate elected two rulers, "consuls", who each served a term of one year
-As in the Greek city-states, The Romans would appoint a single dictator in times of war or conflict
-12 Tables
-Respublica- latin for "peoples affairs"
- Saw fighting for homeland as a duty
-476 B.C. Roman Empire came to and end