Rome Rap

Today in Western Civ we went through and discussed the lyrics to Mr. Schick's rap about Rome that sadly, I missed. But anyways, I took a few notes and stuff so here they are:

Rome

• first to settle: 
• Latins, Etruscans, and Greeks 
• Tarquin 
• leader who was a tyrant when Rome was a monarchy 
• his son did really awful stuff and it made the people hate them even more so they drove them out
• patricians- wealthier more higher up class of people 
• plebeians- everyone not in that category, the lower class and middle class 
• senate- like ours now 
• monarchy- executive branch 
• two consoles to keep one person from getting too powerful and could veto each other 
• not a tyranny 
• Rome was more violent than Greece 
• "rich got richer and the poor got poorer" 
• Hannibal used elephants to cross the alps during the war with Carthage 
• rich would buy land so the poor could pay debt 
• triumvirate (set up by Caesar) 
• also included Crassus possibly the wealthiest person in history 
• Rubicon 
• "crossing the Rubicon" still used today 
• means you are at a certain point in your life where you HAVE to make a decision 
• Rome was scared to let Caesar in with his huge army
• he was dictator for 6 months 
• on the ides of March his friend Brutus and others stabbed him to death 
• new triumvirate was formed that included Mark Antony and Octavian 
• the two had a war and Antony lost 
• Pax Romana started when Octavian ruled,  it was a reign of peace and prosperity for 207 years 

oh we also watched a video of the fighting, or "entertainment" as the Romans called it at the end of class.