Western Civilization I
Outline #9
Professor Knight

The Rise of the Roman Republic

I.  Pre-Roman Italy
	The Etruscans
	Indo-European influx c. 1000BC
	The Celts (Gauls)
	Phoenicians influence
		Carthage
	Magna Grecea (Greater Greece)
	

II.  The Beginnings of Rome
	Foundations Myths
		Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus, Horatius Cocles, Lucretia
	Early Roman Social Organization
		The Household 
			Paterfamlias
			Clans (gens), Council (curia), Tribes.
	Etruscan Domination:  c. 700-500BC
	

III.  The Roman Republic
	Early Period (507-202BC)
	Middle Period (202-133BC)
	Late Period (133-27BC)
	“Struggle of the Orders”
		Patricians and Plebians
		Dual offices:  Consuls, Praetors, Quastors, Censors
		Tribunes:  Representatives of the Plebians
		Law of the Twelve Tables—450BC
		Plebians allowed to be Consuls-367BC

IV.  Expansion of Rome
	Citizen-Soldiers
	Roman Conquest of Italian Peninsula—up to 300BC
	Citizenship granted to new populations
	Rivalry with Carthage
		First Punic War (265-241BC)
		Second Punic War (218-202BC)
		Third Punic War (146BC)
	Roman conquest of Hellenistic monarchies (200-133BC)
	Sack of Corinth, 146BC