Rome

Hi, here you can see my 'mini chapter' on Rome.

2/2/11 Two or three errors remain. Fix part about the Roman consuls. Grade is 90. Final. Mr.B. Thank you for completing Rome. I will grade this soon.

--Mr. B.

Rome Mini-Chapter Daniel: You are missing the first geography paragraph of about three blanks of info. Add it, please. Then, there are two numbered errors: 1 and 2. That adds up to five errors. A grade of 80. Fix. Revise. Go for 100. Mr. B. on 1/19/11 According to mythology, twin brothers named Romulus and Remus founded Rome. After Rome’s last king, whose name was Tarquinius was overthrown, Rome became a democracy, which is a government in which the people chose representatives to speak for them and pass laws. (The U.S.A. has this form of government.)Rome was divided up into two social groups: plebeians and patricians. Plebeians are low class people who work for patricians, who are rich land-workers. The patricians were not always fair towards the plebeians. So, the plebeians rebelled and got the patricians to publish Rome’s first set of laws. These were called The 12 Tables. The most powerful branch of Rome’s government was the Senate. It was made up of Rome’s patricians. It controlled law-making and how money was spent in Rome. Tribunes were elected by the people from the Citizen Assembly. They asked the patricians to pass laws for the plebeians. There were two powerful 1. branches. One was head of the 2. representatives and one was a chief judge. Rome wanted to be the unquestioned leader of the entire Mediterranean region. So they went to war with the civilization of Cartage over who would control the island of Sicily. These wars were called the Punic War. Julius Caesar was Rome’s first emperor, which is an all-powerful ruler. Caesar was from a wealthy patrician family, and he had built up his power as a Senator, Consul, and later as military governor of Roman Gaul [France]. After Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Senate, his adopted stepson, named Octavian Caesar, became emperor. Rome grew in power and in the size of the area that it controlled. The time when Augustus Caesar ruled was called the Pax Romana, which means Roman peace. To pay for its huge building projects, Rome collected taxed money from those it had conquered. It counted the numbers of people whom it had conquered; they called this count a census. Roman soldiers built an immense network of waterways. Water was carried to new Roman cities on raised water bridges called aqueducts. Roman citizens enjoyed bloody entertainment in Rome’s immense coliseums, which is where gladiators fought to the death.