Western History ch. 6

Historians divided Roman history into the period of therepublic which began in 509 b.c and the period of the empire which began in 27 b.c

Octavian (augustus)

architectural styles and skills in road construction, sanitation, hydrolic engineering, metallurgy, ceramics and portrait sculpure. Symbols of authority and rules were also borrowed from the Etruscans.

At the sixth century b.c. the traditional date is 509 b.c

Aristocrats by birth who regarded themselves as the preservers of sacred traditions.

Commoners

The Plebeians wanted political, legal, and social equality. But the were resisted every step by the Praticians.

assembly form by Plebeians after they won their rights to do so in the early fifth century.

The code that gave plebeains some degree of protection agaisnt unfair and oppressive patrician officials.

• 1. The uniting of the itilian peninsula,
• 2. The collision with Carthage, which made Rome ruler of the western Mediterranean.
• 3. The subjugation of the hellinistic states, which brought Romans in close contact with Greek civilization.

the commander of the Carthaginian army in the second punic war. whos military genius astounded the ancients.

defeated Hannibal at the battle of zuma in north africa in 202 b.c ending the second punic war.

The Third punc war launch by the romans was driven by old hatreds and the traumatic memories of hannibal's near-conquest.