Herhaling Romeinen

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Revision The Romans

Greeks and the Romans

3000 v.Chr. - 500 na Chr.

Roman Republic

* 2 Conculs

- Veto right ( I forbid)

* Senate

- several hundred men of rich families 

- decided on the laws

Roman Empire

* well organized army

* Treated their enemies very well after defeating them

- Provide soldiers

- Obey

+keep their own religion

+ Roman army protected them

+ leaders were allowed to have a say in Roman politics

+ citizenshp rights

Julius Caesar

* Strong general

* argument with the senate -> civil war

* Army chose for the general

* Dictator

* = absolute ruler

* Senators angry> Murderd Caesar 

Augustus                             

* 27 BC. won the civil war

* Kept seante -> not mucht to say

* Conculs chosen by himself

* Imperial Rome

* Pax Romana

Roman administration

Countryside

* Free farmers

* Group became smaller 2 century BC. 

* Wars -> No time for farming

* Big landowners

- High-ranking positions in the army   -> conquered area's

- bought land from the poor farmers

City

* Poor farmers -> 

proletarians

* Rich -> Elite

* Slaves

Property

* Women

Inferior to men

Roman culture

* Greek-Roman culture

* Same gods

Zeus -> Jupiter

* Temple (columns)

Problems in the Roman Empire

1. The Army was too small for the big empire

2. Taxes were too high -> the Empire less money

3. Long time in the army -> more connection with the general than the emperor

4. Struggle of power in deciding who should take over power.

The Empire splitting 

395

• The Empire split into two in 395
• Eastern Roman Empire
• Western Roman Empire

The Great Migration

• Borders unguarded
• European tribes invade the Empire -> The huns
• Other tribes fled

The fall of the Western Roman Empire

476

• Invaded tribes  plunderd
• Less united -> difficult to collect taxes -> economy declined
• 476 last Western Roman emperor was overthrown 

The Eastern Roman Empire?

•  1453  Constantinopel conquers by the Turks
  
• Protected betweek the deserts and the mountains 

Tegenwoordig is de Hagia Sophia (Aya Sophia) één van de grootste moskeeën ter wereld. In de tijd van het Oost-Romeinse Rijk was dit de grootste christelijke kerk ter wereld.

Jenga

* I divide the class in 5 groups

* you get a game + questionsheet+ answersheet

* Question right? + 1 point

* Let it fall over? - 3 points