Tuesday Notes

The senate had decided to kill Caesar.
He got stabbed to death by Senators
Augustus the first Emperor
Begins the Pax Romana- a Period of peace and prosperity
Jesus was a Roman citizen.
Statements like My kingdom is not of this world made the Romans And Jews nervous.

Monday Notes

Proletarian- In ancient Rome, a property less but voting class.
With the change of Rome's society and politics of its armies their commanders also changed. Instead of the farmer soldiers of the old it was now landless and property less proletarians who were drafted to fill the ranks of the legions.
Rome's soldiers were now "semi professional"
Many soldiers were in it for the money
Julius Caesar collaborated with Pompey and Crassus. They formed a triumvirate (three man board)
Caesar won an appointment as proconsul of a province that included the southern regions of Gaul.
Caesar had conquered most of Gaul and made some small progress in Britain and Germany.
He now has a lot of land and an elite army personally loyal to him
Rubicon was the border where Caesar had to decide to not take his army or disband them and go with a small force because the senate ordered him not to as he was gaining too much personally glory
Caesar had pretty much taken over taking control of all the government .

Notes

Roman Legion -5000 people
Infantry and Cavalry
80 centurions to a legion
First two Punic wars won by Rome, third punic war is Rome eliminating Carthage once and for all

Monday

Gracchi brothers were elected to the assembly.
They tried to make everything good for the poor
Everyone is expected to fight in the wars.
Gracchus brothers tried to get rich to give back some poor their land.
One of the brothers got murdered by a senator with a chair and throw into the river.

Notes:
Carthage was founded by Phoenician colonist and their influence started spreading to different regions. It soon became that Carthage formed their own nation, consisting of nations around Africa.
There were three different wars, the first and third in which Rome were successful and the second in which Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian general nearly defeated Rome. Overall Carthage lost because they required Mercenaries and Rome only required their citizens which they could draft.

Friday

Today in class we went over stuff in the textbook. We just underlined stuff and it was a good review I guess. I will copy my notes onto my blog later on. It was a tad bit boring in class but I enjoyed hearing about the Romans. So far this unit has been starting off slow. I did  see something about the Roman Army in the next pages so hopefully we got onto stuff that interest me. Anyways, looking forward to this chapter.

Wed 4/2/14

Some notes:
The three parts in the roman republic, Monarchy, democracy, aristocracy
United States is not a democracy it's a republic
Power is usually checked in democracys/republics by other people, like vetoing.
Those were basically the important notes. Any other stuff I already knew and I can remember on my own. Yeah, so far the chapter has been interesting. I look forward to learning some more stuff.