1. Rome Stuff You Need to Know
The Legions
The Roads
The Law
The Latin

2. All Roads Lead to Rome First paved road called via Appia (Appian Way)
over km of road built 5

3. Roman Law: The Twelve Tables
Rome was among few societies that developed laws that were codified (written down) and fully analyzed by jurists
In response to pressure by the ordinary people to break the monopolization of the law by the patricians and upper class
Twelve Tables: written 450 BCE in Latin
Most laws related to civil matters
Formed basic legal procedures and appropriate punishments
Roman law still distinguished between rich and poor, freemen and slaves 6

4. Latin For the next thousand years
Romans spoke Latin, which spread throughout the Mediterranean Greek was the only
other language to survive
Latin still to this day has a strong presence in language of medicine and law
e.g. Canis lupus familiaris
For the next thousand years
Latin was the language of Roman government and legal system
became the international language of the Christian church
education and scholarship 7

5. Examples of Latin Veni, vidi, vici “I came, I saw, I conquered”
Alter ego
“another I”
Bona fide
“in good faith”
Et cetera
“and other”
Cerebrum
“brain”
Exit or exeunt
“He / she / they go out”
Habeas corpus
“you must have the fact / body of the crime”
Via
“by way of”
Vice versa
“the other way around”
Et al.
“and others” 8