Test tomorrow

• City-State and Empire - the Roman Republic
• where did the first Indo-Europeans settle around 750 BC?
• shores of the Tiber River, in the low-lying "Seven Hills" of central Italy.
• what three groups of people dominated the culture of early Rome?
• Latins (came in first), Etruscans, Greeks
• who was Tarquin the Proud, and what was so significant about him?
• last of the Etruscan kings.
• describe how Rome moved from a monarchy to a republic
• ruled by kings, advised by rich patricians, after Tarquin the govt. became res publica or a republic
• describe difference between a patrician and a plebeian
• patrician: upper-class, landowning, established, connected, powerful. 
• Plebeian: common people, workers, small-time farmers, some wealthy non-patricians
• define:
• senate: govt. assembly of 300 (unpaid) patricians
• consuls: two senators who led the govt. and military for one-year terms, could veto each other
• tribunes: leaders of the plebeian assembly; first rather powerless, gaining ground over the years
• what is so important about the Twelve Tables?
• marked the 1st time that laws were written down in Rome
• set up to protect plebeians who were getting pushed around by patricians
• publicly displayed in the Forum
• the Roman Republic serves as a model for what modern document, and what modern govt.?
• the Constitution of the US and its separation of powers
• Senate / Assemblies - US Senate / House of Reps/Consuls / Dictator - Pres. of the US / senate could act like judges - like our Supreme Court
• why only the rich could serve in the Senate?
• members were not paid, but worked their way up from low-ranking magistrates to higher ones. they meed to spend a lot to look good, popular, and powerful, making them electable. Plebes couldn't afford to do that.
• the kings who ruled between 600 and 500 BC ordered the building of Forum, Rome's Political center.