Starting Rome!

• About 500 B.C. Rome became a Greek-style city-state that was no longer ruled by kinds, but by the Republic
• More stable and more effective than any other in Greece

• Italy and its people
• In the era of Indo-European migrations, when the Hitties moved into Asia Minor and the Greeks into the Aegean, other tribes moved into Italy
• This land was similar to those of Greece or Palestine.
• They were just able to support a bigger population
• The indo- Europeans
• Formed various tribal groups
• Among them the Latin people of central Italy.
• Some of the Latin's settled ear the mouth of the Tiber River
• Building clusters of dwellings on low-lying hills along the river.
• Around 750 B.C. these settlements joined to form a single city-state, Rome
• These people were only one of many peoples that lived in Italy, two of which were to have a decisive influence on the growth of Roman civilization
• The Etruscans
• Non-Indo-European immigrants who gained control of territory to the north of the Latin's that the Romans called Etruria
• In the 7th century these kings ruled Rome itself.

• The Roman Republic: the senate and the people
• patricians and plebeians are diffrent because one is upper- class and one is just commons 

Vocab:

Patricians: upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families

Republic: in reference to ancient Rome, the system of city-state government in which decision-making power was shared between the Senate and assemblies of male citizens

Plebeians: the Roman common people, including workers, small farmers, and wealthy people who were not patricians

Senate: in ancient Rome, a government assembly appointed by the king, and under the Republic by the consuls; originally all members were patricians, but in time wealthy plebeians were appointed as well.

Consuls: in the roman republic, two senators who left the government and military for one-year terms and appointed their own successors.

Dictator: in the roman republic, a single leader with full decision-making powers, appointed for a maximum six-month term during times of emergency

Tribunes: Magistrates elected by the plebeians, who eventually gained the power to initiate and veto laws

Client: a person who provides personal services in return for money and protection from a patron

Patron: a wealthy person who supports others with money and protection in exchange for person services

Pontiff: in ancient Rome, one of the republic's leading priests

Paterfamilias: the "family father", in ancient Rome, who had unlimited power over his household

Matron: title given to a married woman in ancient Rome.