Les 1 - 5.2 - Gain support, gain power

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Rome, eternal empire

5.2 Gain support, gain power 

Today

What do you already know about the Romans?

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Notes paragraph 5.2.1 No more kings

make questions 1 & 2

Notes paragraph 5.2.2 The power of senate and people

Make questions 3a till 6b (homework)

Learning goals

You can explain how the Roman Empire became a republic

You can explain how the governing of the Roman Republic worked.

What do you already know about Rome and the Romans?

What's a republic?

1. Country with a head of state wich is heir to the throne
2. Country without a head of state
3. Country with a king as head of state
4. Country with a head of state without being heir to the throne

What's a monarchy again?

1. Country with a head of state wich is heir to the throne
2. Country without a head of state
3. Country with a king as head of state
4. Country with a head of state without being heir to the throne

De legende van Romulus en Remus

Abdicate

• After founding (ca. 753 b. C) Rome is getting more powerfull (Conquering)
• King Tarquinius Superbus by  (including) cousin Lucius Brutus
• Start of the Republic (509 b. C.)
• Romans vote Lucius Brutus as consul

Make exercises (5 min.)

read 5.2.1

Make questions 1 & 2

Consuls

• meaning 'counselor'
• Two consuls (controlling)
• Lead meetings of the senate
• Legislative proposal
• Can go to war and lead army
  
• Had right to veto (stop legislative proposal)
• Every year new consuls were elected, first by the people, then by the senate. 

The senate

• Comes from 'senex' = 'old man'
• appoint consuls & gave them advice.
• Appointed for life (!)
• About: Foreign Affairs, state finances, public works and safety
• 80 bce. - 600 senators(!)

Aristocracy

• Senate or consul: Only if you were a decendant of an important and rich family in the city. 

• Small group of rich families had all power
• This is called Aristocracy ('governet by the best')

The 'ordinary' population

• Man, women, children, slaves and foreigners
• Little to no influence
• Resistance!

• Establishment assembly (Greeks: Ecclesia)
• Only men had citizen rights (devided by income)
• May discuss matters, but senate had all the power
• Wich citizen rights do you have?

Who had right to veto?

1. Senate
2. Consuls
3. Assembly
4. The king

Call 3 tasks of a consul.

Wich is more powerfull: 2 consuls or the senate?

1. The consuls, because they took decisions and administer justice
2. The senator, because they voted consuls and remained in the senate their whole life.

Homework

read 5.2.2 The power of senate and people

Make questions 3a till 6b

So... How did Rome became a republic again?

What did senators do and what did consuls do?