ROME TIMELINE

ROMAN REPUBLIC (509-27BC)

• Began when Lucius Junius Brutus overthrew the Etruscans
• Republic consisted of consuls, tribunes, senate, assembly
• Power rested with the citizens-they got to elect leaders

12 TABLES (451-449 BC)

• 10 men created
• Code of law for citizens
• Like our modern day constitution

PUNIC WARS (264-146 BC)

• 3 wars
• Between Rome and Carthage

HANNIBAL (247-180'S BC)

• From Carthage
• Leader during Punic Wars
• Great military commander

JULIUS CAESAR (59-44 BC)

• Became consul of Rome in 59 BC
• Became dictator of Rome in 49 BC
• Assassinated in 44 BC

ROMAN EMPIRE (27 BC-476 AD)

• Ruled by autocratic emperors
• Political corruption
• Constant warfare
• Split into east and west in 284 AD

AUGUSTUS (63 BC-14 AD)

• Adoptive son of Julius Caesar
• Founder of the Roman Empire
• First emperor of the Roman Empire

PAX ROMANA (27 BC-180 AD)

• "Roman Peace"
• Time of unprecedented peace and economic prosperity

COLOSSEUM (70-80 AD)

• Built 70-80 AD
• Amphitheatre
• Holds 50 to 80 thousand people
• Used for gladiatorial contests, public spectacles(battles, animal hunts, executions, dramas)