Group project pt 2
Today in class we kept working on our group project, we filled out a chart for ours. I did research on Draco and I hope we get a good grade on it due to the fact that I have an F in this class.
Notes pt 3 (patritians, government, punic wars)
how did the patricians dominate? plebs had to serve in the army, but could not hold office plebs were threatened with debt slavery plebs had no legal rights plebs were victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial trials Rome had no actual laws, just unwritten customs patricians could interpret these to their own advantage So, plebs refused to serve in the military until… laws were written out (The Law of the Twelve Tables) these laws (on tablets) were posted in public (in 450 BCE) tribunes (“tribal leaders”) were elected SPQR - Senatus Populusque Romanum designates any decree or decision made by “the Roman Senate and People” brand new republic, ready to run democracy (the people’s assembly and the tribunes aristocracy (the Senate - approx. 300 members) plus monarchy (the consuls) not a tyranny (eww… too scary… a mistake the Romans did not care to repeat) originally, the US modeled their new government on the model used by the
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