Ancient Rome

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Ancient Rome
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Legend of Romulus and Remus
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Roman Republic

• C. 500 BC
• Patrician/Plebes
• Consuls
• Known for
• Disciplined
• Thrifty
• Industrious

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Their genius was in

• Organization
• Administration
• Construction
• Warfare

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Roman Legions
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Vast Empire

• 300 BC
• Defeated Carthage Punic Wars
• Expansion
• Issues
• Slaves
• Lower Classes

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Hail Caesar
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Et Tu, Brute?
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Anthony and Cleopatra
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Pax Romana

• 27 BC 180 AD
• Peace Law
• Roads
• Communication
• Spread Christianity

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Culture from Hellenism

• Surpass the Greeks in the practical
• Law
• Civil Engineering
• Standard Coinage
• System weights and measure

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Greek Literature influences

• Poetry
• Vergil, Horace
• Historians
• Livy, Tacitus
• Rhetoric
• Cicero

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Trajan Emperor at its Peak

• 98-117 AD
• Internal strife
• Barbarian raids

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Split of Empire

• 395 AD
• West Rome
• East Constantinople

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Collapse of Empire

• 410 Visigoths sack Rome
• Followed by others

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Holy Roman Empire 800 AD
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Roman Architecture
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Arches and Vaults
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Pantheon
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Interior of the Pantheon
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Roman sculpture
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Fresco