HIST 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carthago Delenda Est, Shang Yang, Oligarchy
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Part three: rome and han china: empires at the edges of eurasia. Questions: how did the romans and han chinese maintain control of their empires>>, fhrfg, sdgsg. Hard to trust all docu(cid:289)e(cid:290)ts because (cid:363)ere(cid:290)"t a large a(cid:289)ou(cid:290)t. Etruria (etruscans): urban planning, writing (script), proto-gladiatorial fighting, etc. Magna graecia (greeks): religion (zoroastrians), political systems (democracy) and citizenship, literature (later point in time), etc. Powerful men sitting around bragging about wives, turns into competition. Each of elites goes to house of another elite to see what wives are doing. Prince so captivated by lucretia (elite roman woman) that he rapes her. Her honor removed (roman perspective leads her to take her own life) Lucretia tells l. junius brutus about raping who hunts down and kills. Supposedly cause for the end of the roman monarchy. Res publica (cid:883)(cid:907)public thi(cid:290)g(cid:908)(cid:884) i(cid:290)stead of res privata (cid:883)(cid:907)pri(cid:362)ate thi(cid:290)g(cid:908)(cid:866) so(cid:289)ethi(cid:290)g that ki(cid:290)gs own for themselves) Patricians (upper class: roman elite) vs. plebeians (lower class: commoners)
