The Roman Republic

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The Roman Republic
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The Divisions of European History

• Roman Republic 700s BC 44 BC
• Roman Empire 44 BC 476 AD
• Early Middle Ages (Dark) 500 1000
• High Middle Ages 1000-1350
• Renaissance 1350-1550
• Early Modern 1550-1789
• Modern 1789-now

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Romes Rise

• Rise in power after Greece begins to decline
• Punic Wars, 265-146 BCE
• Roman society
• a republic, governed by elected officials
• Senate, 300 wise men
• resistance to any kind of king

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What the Romans got from the Greeks and Egyptians

• Gods many Roman gods are adapted from Greek
  culture
• Philosophy especially Plato and Aristotle
• Literature Romans translated literature and
  wrote their own using Greek forms
• Technology engineering, papyrus, etc.

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Roman Society

• Social structure
• Family structure
• Naming practices
• Government
• Senate (senex)
• Citizenship

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The Roman Military

• Must depend on the Senate
• Kept expansion going, which provided
• Money
• Slaves
• Agricultural system
• Efficient, well-armed and organized

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What Rome controlled
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Trouble in the Republic

• An imbalance arose between the Senate and the
  army
• First triumvirate
• Julius Caesar
• Pompey
• Crassus
• Senate trapped
• Caesars ultimatum

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Cleopatra VII of Egypt
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Caesars downfall

• Dictator
• Dicto, to speak
• Assassinated, 44 BC on the 15th (ides) of March
• Power vacuum left by his death