Ch. 8 ID's
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Romulus and Remus | two twins who according to legend founded the city of Rome in 753 BC. According to legend, they were twin sons of the god Mars and a Latin princess. The twins were abandoned on the Tiber River as infants and raised by a she-wolf. The twins then decided to build a city near the spot. |
| Aeneas | Trojan hero written about in "The Aeneid". Called the father of the Romans because he united trojans and Latins |
| Latins | An ancient people living in the region of Latium, Italy, who believed that they descended from Latinus, the father-in-law of Aeneas |
| Estruscans | a sophisticated urban people of obscure origins in Northern Italy - Romans used their alphabet, "Roman numerals", ect... |
| Tarquins | About 620 BC, ruling Etruscan family of Rome, Very cruel, they taught the Latins to build with brick and to roof their houses. |
| Cincinnatus | a farmer who was chosen as dictator to lead the Roman army and quickly defeated his foes in a single day and was not eager to hold on to his power |
| Hannibal | great Carthaginian general during 2nd Punic War; successfully invaded Italy, but failed to conquer Rome; finally defeated at Battle of Zama; fought with elephants |
| Scipio | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa 237-183 BC) |
| Julius Caesar | Made dictator for life in 45 BCE, after conquering Gaul, assinated in 44 BCE by the Senate because they were afraid of his power |
| Octavian | later took name of Augustus; Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son; defeated conservative senators after Caesar's assassination; became first Roman emperor. |
| Antony | Caesars's ally and assistant, took the east side of Rome, part of second Triumverate |
| Cicero | political leader, writer, and Rome's greatest public speaker |
| Augustus | title that Octavion took; means "the reverend or majectic one" |
| Caligula | A cruel and insane ruler of the Roman Empire in the first century A.D.; one of the twelve Caesars. To humiliate the senators of Rome, he appointed his horse to the senate; killed by the Praetorian Guard |
| Nero | Last of the Julio Claudian emperors (related to Caesar), Initially tried to rule as Octavian, Murdered his meddling mother, Blamed Christians for fire in Rome. "fiddle while Rome burned." ; committed suicide |
| Hadrian | "Romanized"and organized the empire- built bridges, roads, and aqueducts, ruled during the height of the Pax Romana, Built Hadrians Wall across Britain, strengthened borders; one of the "good emperors" |
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