ROMAN EMPIRE

GEOGRAPHY OF ROME

• Had been mostly isolated
• Grew from small farming village called Rome
• Wonderful fertile soil
• Easy to access from Europe, Asia, and Africa
• Has a sunny, mild climate
• Has many mountain slopes
• Had flat plains for farming
• Could support a large population

RISE OF THE REPUBLIC

• Benefited from the contributions of Etruscans
• Established republic
• Began as a small city
• government which citizens elect their leaders
• Able to gain land because of strong land army

GOVERNMENT AND LAW OF ROME

• Not completely fair
• patricians and plebians
• consuls
• ability to veto
• only patrician men were in the Senate

PUNIC WARS

• 1st Punic War
• 2nd Punic War
• 3rd Punic War
• Controlled all of Italy firts
• Then came Hannibal and his elephants
• Completely wiped out Carthage

ROMAN LIFE

• Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
• Lots of goods
• Developed currency and silver coin
• Prosperity
• civilization spread
• cultural defusion

ROMAN ACHIEVEMENTS

• Greek Alphabet
• Inspirational morals
• Odyssey by Homer
• Bridges
• Aqueducts
• Made realistic statues

TROUBLE IN THE EMPIRE

• Roman soldiers and foreign invaders disrupted trade
• People had less money
• Merchants saw profits decline, and went out of business
• The government produced coins with less gold and silver
• Farmers and merchants raised prices to make profits
• The value of Roman coins decreased and people began to barter

FALL OF ROME

• Had a poor leader named Commodus
• Rich people stopped paying taxes
• Frequent fights for power
• Plague killed many people
• Farmers lost land
• No taxes=No money
• No money=No military
• Got invaded often
• Diocletion separated empire, west and east
• Vandals came
• And down went the Romans

THE END!!