Notes 3/1/10

• Trojans were the ancestors of the romans
• Aeneas brings his people on a trip from Troy to Africa and then to Rome
• Dido and Aeneas fall in love but the gods tell him that he has to leave and go to Italy. Dido commits suicide for her loss
• The Latins live in Latium
• Latins and Trojans have a war in which the Trojans win
• Trojans set up a town called Alba Longa which is their capital
• Southern Italy was mainly Greek
• She-wolf is to Rome as Eagle is to America
• Romulus and Remus have a war and Romulus wins. He names capital Rome
• The city is built on seven hills
• Etruscan is north of Rome
• Kings rule Rome for several generations
• In the 6th century, Tarquin the Sixth rapes a wife of a Roman nobleman. This sets off a revolt against a Rome. Led by Lucius Junius Brutus, a very shy man.
• When Lucretia kills herself, he steps up and leads the Roman. He sets of the Roman Republic.
• The Tribune of the Plebes. this is the seat that Patricians give the Plebeians to prevent a civil war. This seat has to power to veto.
• After Romans conquer city, they set up person to collect taxes and left alone.
• Epirus- pyrrhus is king
• Pyrrhus defeats Romans in almost every single battle, but couldn't win the war.
• This tremendously boosts Rome's morale.
• Three Punic wars between Rome and Carthage
• 264 BCE, Roman allies complain of Carthage trying to take power from them. Rome goes to help and ends up being in a war with Carthage. This leads to the second Carthage war