Italy and its Peoples
- resources similar to Greece or Palestine
- supported larger population
- Latin people settled near Tiber River
- Latins, Etruscans, & Greeks
- Latins first learned the alphabet and got knowledge from Greek city states
- 750 BC joined a single city state, Rome
- Etruscan non Indo-European immigrants- 9th century BC
- 7th century conquered Latium
- For a period Etruscan kings ruled Rome themselves
The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People
- The Senate- council of elders king was advised by
- Patricians- men with fathers
- 500 BC Rome over through Etruscan rulers
- "Peoples business"- government
- Mixture of Democracy and Oligarchy
- Plebeians- common people
- Consuls appointed senators
- Dictator
- 450 BC laws were written down
- Tribunes- own magistrates
- 250 BC distinction between the groups didn't matter in political
- Rested in hands of the Senate
- Clients- less wealthy citizens
- Patron- protected and paid for the clients
- 500 BC Last king of Rome Tarquin
- Senate 300 people
- Consuls - 2 guys who had more power than the 300
- 1 year can run in 10 more years
- The 12 tables - set of laws written down posted publicly
- Veto Laws
Republican Values
- Still depended on Gods and Goddesses
- Pontiffs- groups of priests headed by the supreme pontiff
- Men had to fight in wars
- Clans and families held together by a father
- Paterfamilias had ultimate power
- Married women had the title of Patron
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