1. Standard: Strandard SSEMA Macroeconomic Concepts Standard SSEMA1 The student will illustrate the means by which economic activity is measured. Essential Question: How is macroeconomics an important and essential study? What are its roots and goals? Warm up: On todaysmeet tell me two terms that describe this economy.

2.  Give me one specific fact about the Roman Republic and one specific fact about Greece. Then tell me how Greece and Rome are different OR alike.

3.  Rome, located in Europe, expanded rapidly  Rome fought many peoples, one of their most important opponents was Hannibal of Carthage  Julius Caesar-good leader, expanded Rome, popular, feared by members of the Seante, and was appointed dictator for life  Augustus Caesar-first emperor of Rome  Much war, but after Augustsus, Pax Romana, time of peace in Rome