1. Key periods + names Monarchy (not that important for this course) Republic Empire -cursus honorum -novus homo -- dictatorship -secession of the plebs - tribune of the plebs - tribunate power (veto) - optimates - populares - proscriptions - first triumvirate (Caesar, Pompey and Crassus) - second triumvirate (Octavian, Antony and Lepidus)

2. The extent of the Roman Empire

5. Empire in 133 BCE

6. Empire in 102 BCE

7. Empire in 60 BCE

8. Empire in 44 BCE

9. Empire in 30 BCE

10. Empire in 6 AD

11. Empire in 140 AD/CE

12. Periods: Foundation of Rome 753 Monarchy Etruscan influence/Tarquins rule Rome 616-510) Tarquinius Priscus (616-579 BCE)

13. Mid Republic Punic Wars (Carthage = money + territory + elephants) 1 st 264-241 2 nd 218-202 Cannae 216 Zama 202 3 rd 149-146 Destruction of Carthage 146

18. Pyrrhus 280-275 BCE Macedonian Wars - 1 st Macedonian War (214-205 BCE) - 3 rd Macedonian War victory over Perseus (171-167 BCE) - destruction of Corinth 146

19. Late Republic (133-31/27 BCE) Social War (91-89) Spartacus’ uprising (73-1 BCE) Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) Octavian/Augustus

20. Caesar in Gaul = money = influence

21. Empire Julio-Claudians (27 BCE-68 CE) Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero Flavians (69-96 CE): Vespasian, Titus, Domitian Nervo-Antonine Dynasty (98-192) Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Commodus Severans (193-235) Septimius Severus, Elagabalus, Alexander Severus Constantine (306-336) - inauguration of Constantinople 330

22. Augustus (27 BCE-14 CE)