May 14

-Latins were the first to settle
-Greek had many colonies along the Mediterranean sea
-Settled on Palatine hill
-Tarquin was the seventh and final king
-lucretia and Sextus she committed suicide after tarquins son raped her
-democracy
-aristocracy
-monarchy
-NO TYRANNY
-Res publica means peoples affairs, how we get republic
-executive, judicial, and legislative
-some had two consuls, one-year terms, veto power, controls the military and could appoint a dictator.
- The as one pres., four-year terms, veto, commander in chief.
- some legislative only had two houses, now the US has 100 senators, and there are 435 reps. 55 from Cali, 8 from MD. Two-year terms
- Judicial back then was praetors and that's it. Now, we have court for everything. Supreme court had nine members with lifetime terms.
- twelve codes/now bill of rights
-Punic war
--naval batter in Sicily was the first
--23 years
--Hannibal attempted the new tactic in the second.
--Rome destroyed Carthage in the third one
-latifundia(big farms)
-Julius Caesar was very successful; he made people happy and stuck to his words.
- Pompey, Crassus, and Julius were the triumvirate
- crossing the Rubicon= point to no return
-Appoints himself as power of Gaul