Rome
- Ninth Century – Etruscans move into Italy
- City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (1 of 4)
- Italy and Its People
- Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome
- Remus and Romulus
- City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (2 of 4)
- The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People
- Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders called the “Senate”
- C. 500 B.C., the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a “Republic”
- in the Greek City-States, the Romans would appoint a single dictator in times on war or conflict
- City State and Empire: The Roman Republic (3 of 4)
- The Roman Republic: The Senate and the People
- Eventually the plebeians gained power in the Senate by electing their own magistrates called “tribunes”
- In 450 B.C., the laws of Rome were codified and written into the “Twelve Tablets”
- The “mixed” government of patricians and plebeians had many of the checks and balances that modern democracies have today
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