Notes for tomorrows test

• Where did the first Indo-Europeans settle around 750 B.C.?

Tiber River

• three groups that dominated 

-Etruscan's 

-Latins

-Greeks

• Tarquin the Proud 

was the last of the king's

• Tarquin's son 

raped a women and got away with it

• how did Rome move from a monarchy to a republic

-ruled by Etruscan kings(monarchy) who were advised by patricians(aristocracy)

-after Tarquin(tyranny) the government became Res Publica(republic) 

• patricians and plebeians

-patrician: upper-class, landowning, established, connected, powerful

-plebeians: common people, workers, small-time farmers, some wealthy none patricians

• Define

-Senate-government assembly of 300 patricians; appointed for life, first by kings, then consuls

-consuls- 2 senator who led the government and military for one-year terms; could veto each other

-tribunes- leaders of the plebeian assembly; first rather powerless, gaining around over the years

• twelve tables

-marked the first time that the laws were written down in Rome

-set up to protect plebeians who were getting pushed around by patricians

-displayed in forum

• Roman republic; modern government and modern document

-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

• kings who ruled between 600 and 500 BC

Forum- Rome's political center