Roman Empire

Roman Republic 509 BC

509 BCE

Roman Republic in 509 overthrew the Etruscan, they then set up a republic and had 200 years of war and conquest with enemies.

Struggle of Order, Twelve tables,

300 BCE

Drama between plebeians and the patricians, by 3rd century Plebeians could vote. Created Twelve tables first code of law for the roman Civilization at that time was not great for later on Rome .

Romans defeat the greeks

264 BCE

Romans defeat the Greek in the S. and control pretty much all of Italy, then create a confederacy, allowed some Romans to have citizenship.

First Punic war

264 BCE

Carthaginians were on the island of Sicily. Rome sent troops neither side wanted to give it up. by 241 BC, Romans won the war and Carthage paid a fine and gave up Sicily.

Plebians and Patricians

250 BCE

There were to early groups of the roman republic, the Plebeians which were less wealthy craft people and small farmers who were the majority of the group. Second, the patricians who were wealthy land owners, and Rome's ruling class the minority

Second Punic War

206 BCE

Rome fights Hannibal, the alps destroy Hannibal's army he has to retreat and then in 206 BC Rome decides to fight Spain and beat the Carthaginians and force them out of Spain.

Age of Augustus

180 BCE

Augustus gave back everything to the senate. Gave family power and so forth. He was a great leader. The empire slowly got bigger and bigger tell they couldn't grow anymore. The germans slowly pushed in and won a couple small battles which shows the roman empire was limited. He eventually died at 180 ad.

3rd Punic War

146 BCE

Rome wanted the complete destruction of Carthage by 146 BC, they got their wish Carthage was burned to the ground in 10 days

Civil war

82 BCE

By 82 BC, sulla wins and seizes Rome, restores power to the Senate, and removes power of the Council of Plebs, which later on opened the door for ambitious people.

Spartacus 76-111 bc

76 BCE

The famous Spartacus revolt. Spartacus lead a revolt through rome, his biggest army ended up being 125k. It was full of slaves from all over. Finally ended when he was killed. He almost took rome a run for there money because they thought he wasn't that big of deal, but he scared a lot of people and added affect onto the empire.

Good and bad emperors

69 BCE

Tiberius , Caligula, Claudius, Nero. First Tiberius was good at the start but ended by not trusting anyone. caligula (little boots) starts good but falls apart. Caligula kept him alive b/c he made fun of him, did good works but was easily manipulated. Nero.. Was terrible he practically killed anyone he wanted. He finally committed suicide in 69 AD.

1st triumvirate

60 BCE

60 BC- 3 joined to form a triumvirate, pompey who commanded Spain, Crassus who commanded Syria, Caesar who commanded Spain and Gaul (France).

Ceasar Dictator

45 BCE

He destroyed the two other of the 1st triumvirate. Caesar officially made a dictator absolute ruler in 45 BC.

2nd triumvirate, Battle of Actium

31 BCE

The 2nd triumvirate happened after the death of caesar. Octavian- Caesar’s hier and grand-nephew. Antony Caesar’s ally and assistant, Lepidus Commander of the cavalry. Within a few years Octavian had the West and Antony the East. The empire was just to small for the both of them which leads to a fight where Octivian crushes antony who was also allied with cleopatra. They both fled and killed themselves.

'Good Emperors'

200

Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, Nerva, and Pius. The 5 good emperors of the time. Trajan helped educate the poor. Hadrian built many public works, aqueducts, walls, bridges, harbors. ends with Marcus Aurelius picks Commodus to succeed him. By 200 ad the empire was hard to defend.

Christianity 313 AD

313

Christianty got extremely popular after augustus brought back family traditions. This is said to be one of the downfalls of the roman empire

Downfalls and end of the roman empire 476 AD

476

Political, economic, and technology problems, dependence on slavery hindered growth of technology. The lead piping and also the plague which decimated 1/10 of the empire. By 476 the western empire ended but the eastern empire thrived.