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CHAPTER TIMELINE
406 B.C.E.
312 B.C.E.
30 B.C.E.
Decline and collapse of the Republic Reforms of the Gracchi
Poems of Catullus Works of Cicero
Caesar as dictator
218 B.C.E.
Conquest of the Mediterranean
Plays of Plautus
124 B.C.E.
500 B.C.E.
Republic begins Conquest of Italy
Struggle of the orders
Twelve Tables
CHAPTER REVIEW
Upon Reflection
Q How did Rome’s contact with the Hellenistic world affect Roman civilization in the second and first centuries B.C.E.?
Q How did Rome achieve its empire from 264 to 133 B.C.E., and in the course of its expansion, what
Key Terms
consuls (p. 98)
praetors (p. 98)
imperium (p. 98)
quaestors (p. 98)
aediles (p. 98)
senate (p. 98)
centuriate assembly (p. 98) patricians (p. 99) plebeians (p. 99)
Suggestions for Further Reading
happened to the political structure and the political values of the Roman republic?
Q Was the fall of the Roman republic due to systemic institutional weaknesses or the personal ambitions of generals and politicians? Why?
tribunes of the plebs (p. 99) council of the plebs (p. 99) plebiscita (p. 99) paterfamilias (p. 106) latifundia (p. 107)
nobiles (p. 112) optimates (p. 112) populares (p. 112) equestrian order (p. 112)
GENERAL SURVEYS Good surveys of Roman history include R. J. A. Talbert, The Romans: From Village to Empire C. S. Mackay, Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History (New York, 2004).
(Cambridge, 2004), and M. T. Boatwright, D. J. Gargola, and
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