(Camera zooms as Waylon speaks to the viewers) Waylon: Welcome to Wednesday Morning Live. (intro plays) ( Waylon walks onstage, Wednesday Morning Live flashes onscreen) Waylon: Welcome back to another episode of Wednesday Morning Live. Today’s subject is Ancient Rome: You know, that place that gave us Caesar salad. (audience laughs) But we’ll mainly be discussing Rome’s fascinating history. And let’s give a warm welcome to our co-host, Christian! (audience claps as Christian enters) Christian: We’ll be starting with Roman history and going into religion. I’m sure we already know about the creation of Rome, you know, with Romulus and Remus, so we should start with the Roman Republic. The Roman Republic was started in 509 BC by Lucius …show more content…
What were the Twelve Tables? The Twelve Tables were a code of law that was created by the Decemvirate, that was used to keep everything equal between the Patricians and Plebeians, the two classes in Rome. The patricians were the wealthy, and the plebeians were the poor. The Twelve Tables were made by the Decemvirate, from 451-449 BC. They were a consul of judges, twelve to be precise. There was an election and 9 new judges were elected. One of the original judges was elected to be in the second consul because he was thought to be fair and equal, but he ended up being an evil tyrant and added two new tables that oppressed the Plebeians, giving more power to the Patricians. Now let’s talk about The Laws on the Twelve …show more content…
I want to talk about from 290 B.C. on! Waylon: You can do it after I talk about the rule of Caesar and Octavian! Caesar’s actual reign didn’t take up that much time, as before his actual dictatorship began he was a consul. He continually switched out with Crassus as consul, and eventually gained enough power to overcome Pompey and become ruler. After his downfall, Octavian took power and through strategy and small trickery he rose to the top and added important features to Rome that would stick with many civilizations for years to come. Christian: OK. My turn. From 264 B.C. to 202 B.C., Rome fought against Carthage in the three Punic Wars. Let’s start with the basics of the Punic Wars. What were the Punic Wars? The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between ancient Rome and Carthage. Carthage had a powerful navy, an army of soldiers, and enough wealth to do whatever they pleased, and Rome had NO knowledge of over-sea battles at all, as well as no navy. During this time, Roman traders caught in Carthage’s waters had their ships taken and they were drowned. Now let’s talk about the first Punic War. But first, a commercial break. (commercial
Written c. 450, the first written code of Roman law. For Summary, see Prof. Adams' Handout.
The twelve tables are a document during 451 to 450 B.C. it was one of the earliest attempts of creating code of law so it’s basically the roman law each table is responsible for a section in the law for example table one is the law pertaining to procedure for the courts and trials this part in the document states that the prosecutor summons the defendant to court they have to attend what I took from this part of the roman law was that fair justice was a
Ancient civilizations offer insights about their respective societies through various ways. One if those ways can be seen through the law codes of the society. The Code of Hammurabi, The Torah: Laws, and the Twelve Tables were the law codes of the Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, the Hebrews, and the Romans, respectively. These documents were written for their respective civilization and was publicly displayed. Although these law codes span from 1754 BC to 449 BC, these three law codes offer insights about the similarities and differences of each civilizations. From these documents, one can reflect and determine many things about religion, social class, the legal proceedings, and family
In history, there are many different events that happened that includes law. The main three topics that deal with law are Hammurabi's code, the Twelve Tables, and Justinian Code. According, to people and many websites today Hammurabi's code was an important aspect of history. Hammurabi's code placed a great value on life. Twelve Tables is creation of laws so people can have equality and be passed by the government.The Twelve Tables was the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law. Justinian Code protected the people that followed this law.The Justinian Code was law throughout the empire. Many of the modern laws can be traced back to the Justinian Code.
This war could also have another motive as to who controlled trade through the Dardanelles. Punic Wars 264-146 BC Carthaginians vs. Romans The Carthaginians and Romans fought in three different wars over the course of 118 years. Romans fought the Carthaginians to ruin their hold on a chain of islands that would let them control the Western Mediterranean. The Romans wanted to have control. They then fought over land in Italy, particularly Sicily.
Julius Caesar emerged. He was able commander who led many conquests for Rome. In 59 B.C. Caesar set out for a new conquest. After nine years of constant fighting, he finally conquered Gaul. Pompey grew jealous of his achievement and had the senate order him to disband his forces and return to Rome. Caesar secretly crossed the Rubicon and killed Pompey then entered Rome. After crushing many rebellions, Caesar forced the senate to make him a dictator. Caesar launched many reforms such as public work programs and giving land to the poor. According to legend those in the senate murdered Caesar on March 15. Caesar's Grandnephew, Octavian, and Marc Anthony joined forces to capture his killers. However bitter feuds grew it soon became a battle for power.
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The first Punic War started with a request by the locals in Messana for the Romans to aid them in defeating the Carthaginians. Messana was at the southern tip of Italy and would be a great asset to the already superior naval fleet of Carthage. Rome saw this to be a good opportunity to halt the expansion of the Carthaginian Empire and to stop the possible attack on Italy (which was controlled by Rome). Despite this fact the Roman council debated on whether to attack on these premises or not, but eventually it was decided that they would wage war on the Carthaginians. The Carthaginians were then told that they must halt their invasion or war would be waged. They did not stop and Rome declared war.
Rome was changing. The people of Rome were changing. The citizens of Rome were getting tired of being ruled by others. They wanted to rule themselves. So after years of fighting against the last king of Rome, who was Tarquin the Proud, the people of Rome took over, and created a new form of government called a republic (Mr.Donn). In Rome’s republic, citizens of Rome would vote for their own leaders. Now, Rome was not ruled by heirs to the throne, but by the power of citizens that strove to become great leaders. From 509 to 82 BCE, the Republic of Rome thrived. In 451 BCE, ten men were chosen to write the first ten tables of the Twelve Tables after long opposition by the patricians to publicly educate people about the rights they had. One of these ten men was lucky enough to write the last two “tables” to make The Twelve Tables. Some of the rights included in The Twelve Tables were a person’s innocence until proven guilty and a person’s right to pay off debt. During this time, the Roman Republic annihilated Carthage and poured salt on their fields as Rome grew and became stronger. When 82 BCE came around, Cornelius Sulla, a conniving dictator took over Rome when he named...
The Second Punic war, beginning in 218 BC, was the second major war between the Roman Empire and the Carthage. Around the same time, the Roman Empire deployed troops to the Northeastern peninsula of Spain to keep reinforcements, from the Carthaginian South, from getting to Hannibal’s armies in Italy to assist them. In A Histor...
This new Republican government, which was administered by the consuls, was not the easiest to transform. Because of the expansion in Italy, the government began to initiate political institutions. These institutions enforced laws and provided authority which were very similar to imperium. “The Romans had a clear concept of executive authority, embodied in their word imperium, or “the right to command” (Spielvogel 117). Since the Romans were very sensible in their actions, they made and implemented them only as needed. The most essential positions held were the few elected magistrates and the two consuls who were “chosen annually, administered the government and led the Roman army into battle” (Spielvogel 117). If the consul was otherwise occupied, either a dictator or praetor would assume responsibility for the time being.
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He was commonly known as Justinian the Great and also Saint Justinian the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The 12 tables was the basis for Justinian's Code. It was the legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law The 12 tables was the earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables the
They killed the citizens of this city while they also caused trouble in the neighbouring towns. The King of Syracuse went after them, surrounded them and cut off their supplies in order to force them to surrender. They asked Rome for help but the King was a friend of Rome, after a delay, it was agreed to help them sighting fears that Carthage would be asked to intervene and it would have authority over Messana. That is how the first Punic war started.