Rome

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Rome

• Chris Soto
• Computers Social Studies
• March 7th, 2001

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Introduction to Rome

• Rome was a great empire who conquered almost all
  of Europe and it had many important leaders and
  the beginning of a new religion.
• Rome today is an important city which is the
  capital of Italy and has a lot of historical
  sites.

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Roman Emperors

• Gaius Julius Ceaser (100-44 B.C.) Roman Emperor
  who declared himself dictator and was assasinated
  by the Senate.
• Augustus Ceaser (63 B.C.-14 A.D.) First emperor
  of Rome. He restored peace In Rome for 200 years
  known as the Pax Ramona.
• Marcus Aralias (121-180 A.D.) He engaged in so
  many battles that he became popular.
• Marc Anthony (83-30 B.C.)was the second husband
  of Cleopatra and emperor of Rome for 10 years.

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History of Rome

• The Pax Ramona was a period of 200 years of peace
  in Rome.
• Pompeii was a city of 20,000 people, which the
  city was covered with ashes from a volcano.
• The Punic Wars was a war between Rome and
  Carthage.
• The fall of the Roman Empire was in the year
  476 A.D.
• The founding of Rome was in 753 B.C.

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Geography of Rome

• Sicily was an island in the Southwest of Rome.
• Rome is located in Southern Europe.
• Carthage was located in Northwestern Africa.
• Gaul was also part of Rome now known today as
  France.
• Britannia also known as England was part of Rome
  but they only had half of England and that was
  the south part.
• Germany was called Germannia and they were the
  enemies of Rome.

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Roman Government

• Rome was a republic country.
• The most powerful person was the emperor.
• Rome also had dictators.
• Romes government was made up of the senate and
  the consuls.
• In the year 367 B.C. the first the first pleabian
  was elected to be consul.

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Roman Culture

• Roman language was Latin.
• After a while they changed theyre language to
  Italian.
• Rome borrowed many ideas from Greece like the
  gods. The gods were the same but just had
  different names.
• The Roman Army was the backbone o Rome.
• Jesus was the one who created Christianity and
  after Jesus was killed a lot of people became
  Christian.