Rome

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Rome
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• 5th Century BCE Hellenic
• democracy
• polis
• parochialism
• secularism

3rd Century BCE Hellenistic

• monarchy
• empire
• cosmopolitanism universalism
• religion

The Hellenistic World of ca. 250 BCE
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Roman History
Roman Republic 509-27 BCE
509 BCE Founding of Republic 500-264 BCE
Unification of Italian
Peninsula 264-146 BCE Punic Wars with
Carthage 146-133 BCE Greece Hellenistic
States become a Province
of Rome 146-27 BCE Collapse of Republic
490-480 BCE Persian Wars480-430 BCE Golden Age
(High Classical)431-404 BCE Peloponnesian
Wars400-338 BCE Political Upheaval (Late
Classical)336-323 BCE Alexander the Great
(Hellenistic)
Roman Empire 27 BCE 476 CE
Expansion through Conquest Administration
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Roman History
I. Early History
1000 BCE Latin speaking tribes in
Italy 8th cent. BCE Rome founded
Etruscans North Greek Colonies South

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Roman History
II. Roman Republic 509-27 BCE
Evolution of the Roman Constitution 509 BC
Expulsion of Etruscan monarchs formation of
republic
2 consuls
Senate
Centuriate Assembly

• Patrician Plebeian
• Patronage System (patron client)
• 494-287 BC Struggle of the Orders
  (class struggles between plebeians patricians)
• Plebeians gain
• 1. Tribunes
• 2. Plebeian/ Tribal Assembly
• 3. Law of 12 Tables
• 4. Right to intermarry, hold office (including
  priests)

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Roman History
II. Roman Republic 509-27 BCE
Roman Expansion 1. Unifying the Italian
Peninsula (500-270 BC)
How
Diplomacy Warfare
Maintaining Order
a. Full citizenship b. Legal protection no
vote intermarry c. Allied states military
protection
Conquered People
Gave- taxes - troops (Latins only) -
support foreign policy
Got- protection (mil. leg.)- cities Roman
civiliz. - little interference w. local affairs
religious customs
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II. Roman Republic 509-27 BCE
2. Collision with Carthage (264-146 BC) 1st
Punic War 264-241 BC 2nd Punic War 218-201 BC
Hannibal 3rd Punic War 149-146 BC
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3. Subjugation of Hellenistic States (214-148
BC) Macedonian War Rule over non-Latin
peoples
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Collapse of the Republic (146-27 BC) Agricultural
crisis Problems with army Military
Warlords Civil Wars Julius Ceasar 49
BC Reforms 44 BC More Civil Wars
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Roman Republic 44 BC
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Roman Empire 27 BCE - 476 CE
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Roman History
I. Early History
1000 BCE Latin speaking tribes in
Italy 8th cent. BCE Rome founded
Etruscans North Greek Colonies South
Religion
II. Roman Republic 509-27 BCE
509 BCE Founding of Republic 500-264 BCE
Unification of Italian Peninsula 264-146 BCE
Punic Wars with Carthage Subjugation of
Hellenistic States 146-27 BCE Collapse of Republic
III. Roman Empire 27 BCE 476 CE
Expansion through Conquest Administration