#TOMLINSONSLAYSAGAIN

Today in Western Civ we continued to talk about Rome. We just continued taking notes, so here are the notes that I wrote down today.

5,000 soldiers, not in it for pay (not yet):
- the Roman army's elite heavy infantry
-recruited exclusively from Roman citizens

Group of eighty's a century:
On horseback is the cavalry
Shield, sword, dagger, and armor and tonic

The Punic Wars (264 - 146 BC):
Rome vs. Carthage: three wars

First Punic War (264 - 241 BC):
-naval battles for control of the strategically located island of Sicily.
-Rome wins.



Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC):
-29 year old Carthaginian general Hannibal almost does the impossible: taking Rome (used elephants!!!)
-attacks Rome from the North after crossing Iberia (Spain) and the Alps.
-lays siege to much of the peninsula for 15 years but he couldn't get to Rome (Rome - 2; Carthage - 0 lolz)



Third Punic War (149 - 146 BC):
-Rome wanted to remove Carthage's threat
-Scipio, Tiberius Gracchus, and others mercilessly attacked the city
-Carthage was burned for 17 days; the city's walls and buildings were utterly destroyed
-When the war ended, the last 50,000 people in the city were sold into slavery
-The rest of Carthage's territories were annexed and made into the Roman providence of Africa

Economic Change, Social Upheaval:
-Slaves poured into Italy (50,000 Carthaginians, 150,000 Greek POWS, etc.)
-By the end of the 2nd century BC there were over a million slaves in Italy
-Small farmers lost their land to aristocrats (for little or no money) if they couldn't pay their debts, sometimes because the men of the farm were fighting battles
-Slaves did the work on the farms for the rich
-The big farms became massive estates called latifunaia

yes he is.