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Ancient Rome By:Otto Hines, Alexandria Polk, Tatyana Coleman, and Daveon Walker
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Government ● R ome was a republic (Ruled by kings). ● Their government included decrees of the Senate, bills passed in the Assembly, and the practices of public officials who heard cases. ● The Senate was made up of male citizens and were elected every year. However leaders would run for office, stay, and nominate their sons. ● This last from 507 to 31 BC.
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The Senate
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Legal Systems and Bureaucracies ● Roman laws included The Twelve Tables. ● Rome had two major classes; civil and public ● Civil laws dealt with things such as business and property. ● Public laws dealt with crimes like murder and theft. Public laws also handled religion. ● Bureaucracies include city councils, chief and imperial priests, gymnasiarchs, dekaprotoi (collectors of the tribute for the community), and eirenarchs (peacekeepers).
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Military ● The Roman Military unified Italy and all the lands around the Mediterranean ● The core of Rome’s military strength lay in the professionalism of their heavy infantry ● The Military was highly intertwined with the Roman state and government ● Military helped politicians gain power ● Soldiers were usually a part of the lower class
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Architecture in Rome ●Roman was made mostly out of concrete ●They were the first to use the arch and a dome structure ●They built Coliseums for special events ●Rome built bridges, roads, and aqueducts all out concrete ●They built roads that are still there today ●One famous building is the Pantheon ●They also built Defensive walls to protect parts of Rome
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Roads and Trade ●The Romans built roads out of gravel/pebbles and in later years concrete. ●These roads helped the roman have an easier time transporting goods and their armies. ●One of the earliest roads built in ancient rome was the Via Salaria, otherwise known as the Salt Road. This road helped transport salt to the empire. ●Another road is the Silk road which was a way of getting silk from China.
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The romans had to travel a great distance to acquire silk from China.
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Currency ●The main form of currency which was coinage was introduced into Rome at around 300 BCE. ●Coins in Rome were made of gold and were used to pay taxes, rent, wages, credit and exchange goods. ●Coins were a lot easier to use and made the exchange of goods even easier. ●One flaw of uses gold coins was that they were made of a valuable metal that was not easy to acquire. Low gold supply eventually led to inflation.
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Resources http://www.fofweb.com.gatekeeper.chipublib.org/NuHisto ry/default.asp?ItemID=WE49
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