Added Notes on Rome
- The first Indo-Europeans to settle in Italy was the Latin's who settled on the Tiber river
- Tarquin the Proud was Rome's last king
- His son raped a women and he did nothing about it
- Rome moved from a monarchy to a republic by electing people to make decisions
- res publica or republic means peoples business
- Plebeians were the common not as rich people and patricians were rich powerful connected people
- Consuls were the monarchy in the republic it was just two senators and worked for one year(presidents)
- Senate was the aristocracy and made up of 300 patricians they worked for life(Senate)
- Tribunes was the democracy and represented the Plebeians(house of representatives)
- Twelve Tables was slabs with written laws in them and was publicly displayed in the forum
- Our Constitution of the US is like the Rome's Twelve Tables
- Forum is Rome's political center, just like Greece's agora
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