4/7/2014

• Romulus and Remus
• The twins were left to die in the river 
• a She-wolf saves them
• Remus dies and Romulus finds Rome
• Rich vs. Poor
• the Gracchus brothers were to brothers who got elected into the senate
• they tried to make it better for the poor
• rich and poor both fought wars
• the poor would do their part and go to war for maybe months or years
• Some of the rich people would try to buy the farms from the women 
• They would sell to the rich a lot of times and the poor would work on the land
• It got so bad that the civil war began 
• Latifundia- massive estates that the rich owned 
• The Punic War
• the vicious rounds
• 264 and 146 BC
• Carthage was disarmed and helpless at the end of the Second Punic War
• 202 BC Rome had won control of the Western Mediterranean