Rome Notes

• Roman Legion
• army, police force, all soldiers 
• divided into smaller units
• one legion was 5000 soldiers 
• some were just in it for a paycheck 
• others actually cared about their country
• Century 
• 80 people are in a century
• like a Greek Phalanx 
• Infantry 
• people on foot
• ground troops
• all men, no women 
• Cavalry 
• people on horses
• many advantages of horses
• faster 
• easier with spears 
• Punic Wars
• 3 of them 
• First war- was fought over Sicily 
• Second war- Hannibal
• Third War- Romans attacked Carthage 
• Rome won all three 
• Some used elephants which was very helpful 
• Carthage managed to go up and down the peninsula, but never could crush Rome
• Latifundia- Latin word to estate
• When the men are at war, the women most likely sell the farm to one man and one man would have all the land
• the families most likely will move to Rome to try and find work in the city
• Gracchus brothers
• both tribunes
• the rich are getting richer and the poor is getting poorer, the middle class is disappearing 
• suggestion: give the land back to the people they bought it from and fought for it 
• Law passed- the rich had to give some of their land back to the poor
• People attacked then, beat with them with a chair and threw him in the Tiber River 
• Tiberius 
• Civil War started because of this