Jillian Kurzmann's Blog 4/21/18

Jillian Kurzmann
4/21/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we ate brownies that Kelsie brought in. We also took more notes on Rome.

  • 5000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet).
    • The Roman army's elite heavy infantry.
    • Recruited exclusively from Roman citizens.
  • Group of eighty's a century.
  • On horseback is the calvary.
  • Shield, sword, dagger, and armor, and tunic.
  • The Punic Wars (264-146 BCE)
    • Rome versus Carthage.
    • Three wars.
  • First Punic War
    • (264-241 BCE)
    • Naval battles for control of the strategically located island of Sicily.
    • Rome wins this one.
  • Second Punic War
    • (218-201 BCE)
    • 29-year-old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible: taking Rome.
    • Attacks Rome from the north after crossing Iberia (Spain) and the Alps.
    • Lay siege to much of the peninsula for 15 years, but he never can get to Rome.
    • Rome 2, Carthage 0.
  • Third Punic War (149-146 BCE)
    • Rome wanted to finally remove the threat of Carthage.
    • Scipio, Tiberius, Gracchus, and others mercilessly attack the city.
    • Carthage was burned for 17 days: the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed.
    • When the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery.
    • The rest of Carthage's territories were annexed, and made into the Roman province of Africa.
  • Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 Carthaginians, 150,000 Greek POWs, etc).
  • By the end of the Second Century BCE, there were over a million states in Italy.
  • Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats (for little or no money) if they couldn't pay their debts, sometimes because the men of the farm were fighting battles.
  • Slaves did the work on the farms for the rich.
  • The big farms became massive estates called Latifundia.

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