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Name:Angel Nieves___ Humanities Date: _11/30/11_________ 6-B Rome Mini-Chapter Please read in __Our World__ pages 218-221, 222-225, 232-235, and 238. No reading in __A Little History of the World__. The ancient civilization of Rome was founded on the Italian peninsula. The city was founded on the _Latium_________ Plain. The __Tiber_________ River flows through the center of the city. According to mythology, twin brothers named __Romulus__________ and ______Remus______ founded Rome. After Rome’s last king, whose name was Tarquinius was overthrown, Rome became a _Republic____________, which is a government in which the people __citizens choose their________ representatives to speak for them and pass __laws_______. (The U.S.A. has this form of government.) Rome was divided up into ___two______ social groups: plebeians and ___patricians _________. Plebeians are __lower________ class people who work for patricians, who are rich land-_owners__________. The patricians were not always fair towards the plebeians. So, the plebeians ___fought_________ and got the patricians to publish Rome’s first set of ___laws_______. These were called The ___Twelve_________ Tables. The most powerful branch of Rome’s government was the Senate_________. It was made up of _patricians_________. It controlled law-making and how ___money__________ was spent in Rome. ___Tribunes_______ were elected by the __plebians___________ from the Citizen ___assembly________. They asked the __consuls __________ to pass laws for the plebeians. There were two powerful _________ representatives_ _____. One was head of the _army ___________ and one was a chief judge.

Rome wanted to be the unquestioned leader of the entire Mediterranean region. So they went to war with the civilization of _____Carthage___________ over who would control the island of Sicily______________. These wars were called the Punic _war_________. Julius ___Ceasar________ was Rome’s first ___dictator________, which is an all-powerful ruler. Caesar was from a wealthy _______patrician______ family, and he had built up his power as a Senator, Consul, and later as military **_______** governor of _the _________ [France]. After Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the ____Senate_________, his adopted stepson, named __Octavian________ Caesar, became emperor. Rome grew in power and in the size of the area that it controlled. The time when Augustus _____Ceasar_______ ruled was called the __Pax________ Romana, which means Roman __peace_________. To pay for its huge building projects, Rome collected ___tax_____ money from those it had conquered. It counted the numbers of people whom it had conquered; they called this count a _census_____________. Roman soldiers built an immense network of _______pipes__[roads]__. Water was carried to new Roman cities on raised water bridges called __aqueducts______________. Roman citizens enjoyed bloody entertainment in Rome’s immense __Colosseum______________, which is where gladiators fought to the _______death____.