Wednesday, April 2, 2014

4/2/2014


  • The Latins were the first people to show up and settle in Italy.
  • Mediterranean- middle of the Earth. (the middle)
  • The Romans thought they were blessed by the gods and were better then everyone else.
  • They drained one of the rivers so it flowed into the River Tiber.
  • DC owes a lot to Rome
  • Tarquin the proud- he is a king who the people want to get rid of and he doesn't listen to anyone.
  • The Romans copy the Greeks and form a new kind of the Republic 
  • they mixed three kinds of governments together
  • res publica- the business of the people (this is where we got the Republic)
  • Our government is similar to the Romans because we have 3 branches too
  • The president is sort of like a king- they have a lot of individual power
  • The senate comes from the Romans 
  • The house of reps. is the democracy
  • 438 representatives in the United States government.
  • the democracy- represents every day people.
  • 300 people in the senate of Rome
  • two consuls like a king and president so they could veto certain ideas
We just talked about Rome and the United States government.
Project: make a video and a food

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