Taking Notes... Yay...

Hello,

Today in class we took notes. Really fun, I know. I was starving in class and Mr. Schick wouldn't let me get my lunch, but oh well. Here are the notes that I took in class.

• Myth of Rome is that the settled on a land that was ruled by Reins and Romulus which were raised by a she-wolf (check Wikipedia)

• Woman was a virgin and conceived by the god

• Twins left to die in the Tiber and were rescued and raised by a she-wolf

• Twins went on to find Rome and rule

• Big conflict that went on for centuries was between the rich and the poor - not necessarily actual fighting

• The Gracchus brother were elected to the assembly and they always tried to make thing better for the poor in Rome

• Time of war everyone fought rich and poor- unless you have a physical ailment

• You may be fighting for 5-10 years

• Families carried on to work the farm (wives and children)

• Rich older people unable to fight would try to swoop in and buy the farm, this happened a lot

• Rich people were able to have massive acres of land were the sellers would still work on the farm

• Gracchus brothers didn't think that this was right and made a concept that stated the rich were already exceedingly rich and made farms called latifundia. You have more land than you need so give some of the land back to the poor

• Latifundia was huge acres of land that the rich owned

• In the end the Gracchus brothers appealed and the law was vetoed at first then the Gracchus brothers won and on of the members of the senate beat one of the brothers to death with a chair and threw him in the Tiber river then the law was overturned

• People believe that America is going done the same road as Rome

• Big cooperation's buy out small farmers who can't make it

Here are some of the other notes that we had to take on the Punic War

-Fought on land and sea in three vicious rounds between 264 and 146 BC

-In the first phase, Rome was able to force Carthage out of Sicily.

-Second, the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy and brought Rome to a brink defeat.

-Third, Carthage was captured after bitter fighting.

-The Senate ordered the city to be leveled, people to be sold into slavery, and the ground on which it had stood to be solemnly cursed.

-This was only an epilogue to the main struggle.

-Rome had won control of the western Mediterranean.