Today in class we took notes on Rome.
- 5000 soldiers
- the roman army's elite heaven infantry
- recruited exclusively from roman citizens
- group of eighty century
- on horseback is the calvary
- shield, sword, dagger, armor, and tunic
the punic wars
- Rome vs Carthage
- 3 wars
1st war
- 264 BCE-261 BCE
- naval battles for control of the strategically located island of silicy
- rome won this one
2nd war
- 218 BCE-201 BCE
- 29 yr old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible : taking Rome
- attacks Rome from the north after crossing the Iberia (Spain) and the alps
- lays seige to much of the peninsula for 15 yrs, but he can gv t6never get to Rome
- Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
- scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city
- Carthage was burned for 17 days; the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed
- when the war ended the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery
- the rest of Carthage's territories were annexed, and made into the roman province of Africa
- slaves poured into Italy ( 50,000 Carthaginians and 150,000 Greeks)
- by the end of the second century BCE there were over 1 million slaves in Italy
- small farmers lost their land to aristocrats ( for little or no money) if they couldn't pay for their debts, sometimes because they men of the farm were fighting battles
-slaves did work on the farm for the rich
- big farms became massive estates called latifundia
- 5000 soldiers
- the roman army's elite heaven infantry
- recruited exclusively from roman citizens
- group of eighty century
- on horseback is the calvary
- shield, sword, dagger, armor, and tunic
the punic wars
- Rome vs Carthage
- 3 wars
1st war
- 264 BCE-261 BCE
- naval battles for control of the strategically located island of silicy
- rome won this one
2nd war
- 218 BCE-201 BCE
- 29 yr old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible : taking Rome
- attacks Rome from the north after crossing the Iberia (Spain) and the alps
- lays seige to much of the peninsula for 15 yrs, but he can gv t6never get to Rome
- Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage
- scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city
- Carthage was burned for 17 days; the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed
- when the war ended the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery
- the rest of Carthage's territories were annexed, and made into the roman province of Africa
- slaves poured into Italy ( 50,000 Carthaginians and 150,000 Greeks)
- by the end of the second century BCE there were over 1 million slaves in Italy
- small farmers lost their land to aristocrats ( for little or no money) if they couldn't pay for their debts, sometimes because they men of the farm were fighting battles
-slaves did work on the farm for the rich
- big farms became massive estates called latifundia
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