Blog Post 46 : Movie continued

In class we continued the movie ; and the main part we watched was about,Tiberius getting married to a woman, but through an arranged marriage. That brought two families together. At the end of the day Tiberius got killed because they thought that he was trying to become king. All he wanted to do was give the power to the people / give them a voice. But the Senate thought that he wanted all the power for himself. The Senate ended up chasing him and beating him to death, and then throwing his body into the Tiber River.

Blog Post 45 : Movie Class

Today in class we watched a video about Rome that the BBC (British broadcasting) made, and didn't discuss much. I really didn't keep up with it much... Monday, i was tired and, yeah so it didn't go as planned.. Overall the clips were kinda boring and good but  informative.

Blog Post 44: Class

Today in class we just went over our test . It was a cool class, but we just keep going off track a lot and it was annoying , I could say.

Blog Post 43 : quiz

Today in western civilization, we took our Tizz , it was kinda easy accept there were a few questions I didn't really know the answer to. After we finished the quest we just hung out and talked and got our homework. a reading we have to do.

Blog Post 42: Punic War Notes

• The Punic War came from the Poeni latin name for the Phoenicians 
• Were fought on land and sea in 3 different rounds between 264 and 146 B.C. 
• 1st War 
• After the welfare , Rome was able to force Carthage out of Sicily, but the North African city kept the rest of it's empire  
• 2nd War 
• The carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy  defeated several Roman armies, and brought Rome to the brink of defeat 
• End of 2nd war ended in 202 B.C., Carthage was disarmed and helpless
• 3rd War 
• 146 B.C. 
• Carthage was captured after bitter fighting 
• the senate ordered the city to be leveled 
• people were sold into slavery
• in 202 B.C - ROme had won control of the western Mediterranean   

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  

Blog Post 40 : Rome Notes

• 3 groups of people settled in Rome 
• Rome was built on swampland; messy, marshe
• Tarquin got ran out of town, cause of his son's crime 
• Tarquin was the last king of Monarchy / ROme 
• Town put their heads together to make a combo the governments 
• Democracy 
• Aristocracy 
• Monarchy 
• Had 2 consuls - if one had a crazy idea, one could veto the other 
• Once they were consul , they couldn't run again till 10 yrs. later 
• Chosen by senate 
• Law couldn't be a secret, so then they craved the 12 tables and placed them where everyone could see / know 
• Roman Legion - Around 4-5,000 soldiers they were mobile , they move quick , and some were on horseback ( Cavalry )
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