Everything on the Test

Today we took notes again on everything that will be on the test.

• Where did the first Indo-Europeans settle around 750 BC?
• On the shores of the Tiber River
• What three groups of people dominated the culture of early Rome?
• Latin
• Etruscan's
• Greeks
• Who was Tarquin the Proud, and what was so significant about him?
• The last of the Roman kings.
• His son raped a women and got away with it.
• 534-510 BC
• Rome: monarchy to republic 
• Ruled by Etruscan kings (monarchy)
• After Tarquin (no more tyranny) the government became res publica.
• Patrician vs Plebeian 
• Patrician: upper class, land establishing, powerful, connected.
• Plebeian: common people, workers, farmers, some wealthy non-patricians.
• Senate
• governments assembly of 300 (unpaid) patricians, appointed for life, first by kings.
• Consuls
• two senators who led the government and military for one year terms.
• Tribunes
• leaders of the plebeian assembly: first rather powerless but gaining ground over the years.
• Why were the 12 tables so important?
• The first time laws were written down in Rome.
• Protect plebeians who were getting pushed around.
• Publicly displayed in the Forum 450 BC.
• The Roman Republic serves as a model for what modern document, and what modern government?
• The Constitution of the US and its separation of powers:
• Senate / Assemblies - US Senate / House of Reps, Consuls / Dictator - President of the US, Senate could act like judges - like our Supreme Court.
• Why could only the rich serve in the Senate?
• Members were not paid, but worked their way up from low-ranking magistrates to higher ones. They needed to spend a lot of money to look good, popular, and powerful, making them electable. Plebeians couldn't afford it. 
• The kings who ruled between 600 and 500 BC ordered the building of the Forum, Rome's political center.