1. Roman Republic Etruscans Carthage Senate Patricians Plebeians Consuls
Censors
Law of the 12 Tables 450 BCE
Tribunes
Punic War ( B.C.E.)
Hannibal

2. Proconsuls
Gracchi Brothers
Sulla
Julius Caesar (d. 44 BCE)
First Triumvirate: Crassus- Pompey- Julius Caesar
Second Triumvirate: Octavian (Augustus Caesar)- Lepidus- Mark Antony

3. Roman Empire

4. Cleopatra
Octavian (Augustus Caesar) “Princeps”
Principate 27 BCE-14 CE
Pax Romana
Livy
Tiberius
Villa
Virgil BCE
The Aeneid
Marcus Aurelius CE
The Meditations

5. Christianity/Fall of Rome
Commodus r
“Barracks Emperors”
Praetorian Guard
Diocletian (r )
Tetrarchy
Constantine
Constantinople

6. Jesus
Saul of Tarsus (Paul) 6-67 CE
Second Diaspora
Franks
Saxons
Angles
Vandals
Visigoths
Ostrogoths
Barbarian Invasions:

7. Byzantine Empire 400-788 Corpus Juris (533) Justinian (ruled 400-788)
Procopius (Secret History)
“Greek Fire”
Justinian (ruled )
Byzantine Empire (around 550):

8. The “Justinian Plague”
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Hagia Sophia
Theodora

9. Classical Life Polis “The silk Road to China” Gracchi Brothers
Misogyny
Athena
Aphrodite
Patria Potestas
Lex Juliana 18 BCE
Galley Slaves