Blog Post 41: More Rome Notes

• 3 Punic War : Carthage vs. Rome 
• Hannibal - General from carthage 28 yrs. old 
• he sent soldiers to attack Rome; from the Northern area which Rome wasn't prepared for plus they attacked with elephants  
• They went through the Pyrenees Mountains and the Alps -- but they people were a fail 
• And Rome won 
• Rome decided to become just plain heartless and crush carthage
• The rich is getting richer ; the own who owned land 
• 1/3 rd of Rome's population are slaves   
• Lots didn't live a comfortable life 
• Woman weren't able to keep-up with farmland, cause the men were at war 
• So rich would come in and try to buy their land , because it wasn't being taking care of 
• Latifundia -  A large farm worked by slaves 
• After the fact of the men came home and they didn't have anything
• So they moved to Rome , to find better opportunities ( better life )  
• they were poor / desserped
• The urban poor made most of the population in Rome 
•  They went into welfare and gave them enough food and entertained them with gladiator shows ( fights ) 
• Gladiator Fights 
• People fight till death; Criminals , christians and animals 
• The Gracchus Brothers 
• Tried to change the Gov. 
• Said to the rich people "You got more then you need, give some back to the soldiers that were soldiers in Punic War / the poor"
• But the rich just laughed 
• And there idea spreaded and gotten popular by the people, but the rich didn't like it , so one of the brothers got killed and thrown into the Tiber River