CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gallia Narbonensis, Imperium, Plebs
22 Apr 2018
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Test: will be fill in the blanks, will be more answers than there are blanks, dates are pretty important, know main events like punic wars and stuff, not expected to know maps, more territory, more problems. Roman empire, 146 bce: sicily, sardinia-corsica, nearer spain, further spain, macedonia, africa. Gaul in 121 romans added gaul (transalpine gaul: not super big. So now deliberate policy of expansion and conquest: empire meant, 1. discontent, 2. corruption. Italy not a p(cid:396)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)e it"s a(cid:374) all(cid:455), it has a spe(cid:272)ial pla(cid:272)e, (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374)s to ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396), works well, generally speaking: romans control their foreign policy, but they can run their own place. Italians have to fight in the roman army. Quaestors (financial minister: young man just starting on their political career, sent to province to help the governor, they were in charge of financial affairs, 3. Why: 1. in west, rome brought civilization, building roads, built architectural wonders and bathhouses, theatres, amphitheatres, 2.
