BELLWORK 2-16-2010

TITLE NOTES EFFECTS WHAT CHANGES

OF CONQUEST HAPPENED IN ROME
NOTES. AFTER THE THIRD
READ PAGES 224-226 PUNIC WAR?
IN RED BOOK. What were agricultural
THE QUESTIONS ARE changes?
OVER HERE How did Rome the city
Have another sheet change?
titled CONQUEST How did the gov. treat
TERMS. the provinces?
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2 / 16 / 10 - bellwork title paper
roman city video - write these
questions . Skip a couple of
lines
1. What do we get from the design of Roman cities?
2. In the center or heart of each Roman city was?
3. purpose of the aqueducts-
4. What did the pomerium do?
5. The building materials the Romans invented
was_________
6. WHAT WERE THE REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING ROMAN
CITIES?
7. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MOST FAMOUS
AMPHITHEATRE IN ROME?
8. Ideal size of the roman city-
9. If the people outgrew the city the Romans would –
10.
What changes Economy
happened after the Government changed
third Punic War? Slavery increased
Small farms turned
into big farms
Movement from farms
to cities.
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What were Small farms turned
agricultural into latifundias
changes?  Large estates –
grew grapes and
olives
 Imported all wheat
Couldn’t grow
their own due
to fabian
tactics
Used slaves to work
the farms.
How did Small farmers moved to city
Rome the  overpopulated
city Lived in bad wooden
change? apartments.
 No water
 No sewers
 Made of wood
No jobs in Rome
 Poor would sell votes for
money.
How did Taxed the provinces
Rome treat  Publicans to collect
provinces? Over taxed for their own
profit.
Enslaved people from
provinces
Built minatureRoman Cities
in provinces. - teacher
note.
ROMAN PROBLEMS #1
CAUSE EFFECTS-
LATIFUNDIAS- SMALL 
FARMERS SOLD OUT 
THEIR FARMS TO
THE RICH. LAND
BECAME VINEYARDS
AND ORCHARDS
PROBLEM NUMBER 2
GOVERNMENT EFFECTS
STARTED TO
BECOME OLIGARCHY
WITH SENATE BEING
ALL POWERFUL AND
DECISIONS
BENEFITED THE
RICH ONLY
PROBLEM 3
ROMANS PROMISED EFFECTS
TO REWARD ITALIAN 
ALLIES FROM PUNIC
WARS- THEY DIDN’T
FULFILL ALL THEIR
PROMISES.
PROBLEM 4
SLAVES FLOODED EFFECTS
THE JOB MARKET – 
YOU COULD HAVE AS
MANY AS YOU
WANTED –
250,000 THOUSAND
SLAVES ENTERED
ROME
PROBLEM 5
EQUITES- TRADING EFFECTS
INCREASED 
BRINGING IN A NEW
CLASS OF PEOPLE.
THESE MERCHANTS
BECOME
ENORMOUSLY
WEALTHY AND THEY
USE THE WEALTH TO
INFLUENCE THE
GOVERNMENT
PROBLEM 6
ROME SENDS EFFECTS
GOVERNORS TO 

PROVINCES TO RULE
THEM AND THE
GOVERNORS TAX
THE PEOPLE TWICE –
ONCE FOR
THEMSELVES AND
ONCE FOR ROME.