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Romulus and Remus was born mistakenly
Rhea Silvia was their mother who was a vestil Virgin
She got pregnant and had twins Romulus and Remus
The twin sonsdecided that they were going to take over their town home and named it Rome. They had to defeat thier uncle for it. -
Monarhical Branch
Consuls carried on the functions of the former kings, holding supreme civil and military authority in Republican Rome.
Aristocratic Branch
It was an advisory branch that was controlled by the senate. It composed of about 300 citizens who served for life
Democratic Branch
It was an aseembly of centuriesthat was composed of all members of the Army, and they elected consuls every year. -
The Huns have been considered a vicious and violent tribe that originated in central Asia
After harassing and then negotiating with the Eastern Roman Empire in 451, he began a devastating attack on the Western Empire
It took a combined force of Romans and Visigoths to defeat the leader.
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The twelve tables of laws was established.
It is laws for any one who breakes them get consequences.
For examople:Table XII.
5. Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.
Another example:Table IV.
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The Vandals didn't show much muder or violence.
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Hannibal wanted to complete his life's tasks and by doing that he wanted to defeat Rome.
He took 40,000 men and a lot of elephants across Gladiator, into Spain and then to Italy.
Hannibal and his men have to cross the Alps to get to Italy.
He loses half of his men but manages to win every battle in Italy except the last one.
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He was a Roman Businessman and Politician.
He collected an army of 2500 men, and joined Sulla. Crassus won a reputation for himself as a soldier in Sulla's campaigns in Italy.
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Spartacus was a leader who stood up for Rome.
Spartacus was a freeborn provincial from Thrace, who may have served as an auxiliary in the Roman army in Macedonia. He deserted the army, was outlawed, captured, sold into slavery, and trained at the gladiatorial school of Batiatus in Capua. -
Julius Caesar organized a coalition
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The entire state of Rome was under threat and only one man could stop Caesar - Pompey.
Pompey didn't possess the troops to take on the invader. So he withdrew his troops from Italy to gain time to train his troops. Caesar tried to stop him but failed.
Caesar now turned east to deal with Pompey himself.
Caesar won destroying the force of Pompey, who fled to Egypt. Caesar followed, though Pompey was eventually assassinated on arrival by the Egyptian government. -
He begun measures to reduce congestion in Rome, draining large tracts of marshy lands, gave full voting rights to the inhabitants of his former province south of the Alps, revised the tax laws of Asia and Sicily, resettled many Romans in new homes in the Roman provinces and reformed the calendar, which, with one slight adjustment, is the one in use today.
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In 31 BC Octavian defeated Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium on the west coast of Greece. Mark Antony and Cleopatra were forced to flee to Alexandria in Egypt. When Octavian's troops surrounded Alexandria, Mark Antony committed suicide by falling on his sword
Cleopatra was captured by Octavian who planned to take her back to Rome as his prisoner. However, she was determined not to be humiliated in this way and arranged for a poisonous snake to be smuggled into her room in a large box of figs. -
Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Since it was established by Caesar Augustus it is sometimes called Pax Augusta. Its span was about 207 years (27 BC to 180 AD).
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In 27 B.C., the Roman Senate granted Octavian the name Augustus, meaning “the exalted.” They also gave him the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs, with the Senate as an advisory body, effectively making him Emperor.
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jesus of nazareth
Jewish prophet born in Bethlehem who gathered disciples in the Galilee and claimed to be the Messiah and whose teachings form the base of the Christian religion
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Ancient Pomeii
A City
Rome
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Marcus Aurelius
The Pax Romana lasted from about 27 B.C. (with Augustus) until A.D. 180 -- the death of Marcus Aurelius.
180 A.D. -
Constantine
When Maximian and Diocletian abdicated the throne, Constantine’s father became Augustus of the west and Galerius became Augustus of the East. Within a year Constantine was declared Augustus by his father, before his death.
306 A.D.
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Christianity
On 27 February 380, Emperor Theodosius I enacted a law establishing Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire
380CE
The underground movement grew to an alarming rate that they could hardly contain and the only possible way is to bring them into the open by declaring Christianity as the official religion of the Empire. -
Constantinople
It was renamed Constantinople 330 A.D. when the Roman emperor Constantine I moved his capital there from Rome
330 A.D.
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Western empire
Many events throughout the empire's history are considered to have worsened the empire's so called decline. but the sack of Rome in 410, the death of Constantius III in 421, the death of Aetius in 454, and the death of Majorian in 461 are all macrohistorical events concerning the decline of the Western Roman Empire
395-500 B.C.
the events listed and much much more proved to be "overwhelming" for the empire. -
Flavius Odoacer
Odoacer is generally credited with bringing the Western Empire to an end. by removing julius nepos from the western throne in favor of his son, Romulous Augustulus.
476 AD
power and prosperous economic advantages
