CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gaius Gracchus, Hiero Ii Of Syracuse, Yasser Arafat

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 101
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Had italian peninsula, controlled wide territory up to that, nothing overseas, can explain the fact that romans didn"t need to build a naval fleet up to the battles of the 1st century. Sicily was first territory overseas for rome 241 bce, was rich land, for a long period most of grain needed was from sicily, but later replaced by egypt. Admin of it was given to the senate, the senate was later in charge of all subsequent provinces. Senate had the power to attribute diff provinces to the governments but the provinces were selected by lot, senate didn"t make the decision, match of governor was selected by lot, but governors members of the senate. A way for senate to gain more power little by little, will see how the provinces were really organized and governed. Sphere of military activity: not in all provinces were romans welcome, generally hated in many.