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ROMAN REPUBLIC 509 – 27 BC. Republic or... Monarchy? Which one is more democratic? The Roman Monarchy had seven elected kings but in the end... The Romans.

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1 ROMAN REPUBLIC 509 – 27 BC

2 Republic or... Monarchy? Which one is more democratic? The Roman Monarchy had seven elected kings but in the end... The Romans were fed up and got rid of them

3 The word “democracy” was invented by... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Acropolis-panorama-night.jpg...the Athenians in 509 BC “demos” being Greek for... and “kratia” for... “power” “people” whereas “monos” means... “ one ” and “archia”...“power” as well

4 At the same time the Romans created their Republic Remember the year...509 BC Instead of one king who reigned until his death, the Romans elected... two consuls every year! NB: Some translate RESPVBLICA into English as “re(s)” being Latin for... “ thing ” “Commonwealth” and “public” for...(obviously!!!)

5 Roman society was divided into two social classes: patricians plebeians and

6 After many fights, in 5 th century BC, plebeians gained the right... only the latter could be elected as......to vote...and to marry patricians...consuls or senators but

7 an assembly of 300 members that passed... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spqrstone.jpg laws The people, in Latin “populus”, giving “public” in English, and the Senate made Rome big and powerful Senate,Senators formed the...

8 After the first Punic war (240 BC), Rome obtained the two biggest isles in the Mediterranean: Corsica Sicily In 218 they disembarked in...Emporion and began the Roman conquest of...Hispania

9 The conquest of Hispania lasted...200 years!!! Numantia 133 But step by step all the Mediterranean fell into the hands of the Romans Carthage 146 Corinth 146 Pergamon 133

10 Syria 63 BC Gaul 52 BC And conquests went on and on... So that the Romans called the Mediterranean... Mare Nostrum (our sea)

11 Romans had for almost five centuries something that we could call a kind of “aristocratic republic”. But in the end it brought... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maccari-Cicero.jpg

12 conspiracy and... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catilina2-Maccari_affresco.jpg...civil war

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