HIST 101 Lecture 9: HIST 101 2-10
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Patricians: wealthiest, most powerful families: root: patres (fathers) Plebeians: non- aristocratic families: (cid:862)tri(cid:271)u(cid:374)es of the ple(cid:271)s(cid:863) a(cid:374)d right to (cid:448)eto. **patronage let the senate (usually patricians) run everything** You were consul for a year, but senator for life. Nobles were driven to achieve public honors (war: worth was traced back through lineage. The battle of antium, 338 bce a key moment: citizens of the latin name (nomen latinum) = naturalized citizenship. Gives them more people to fight/ who know the land. People (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t fight (cid:271)a(cid:272)k/ less likely to fight (cid:271)a(cid:272)k. ***citizenship gave rome manpower resources that no other state in the mediterranean could match*** (cid:862)i(cid:374) gree(cid:272)e, ma(cid:374) (cid:449)as the (cid:373)easure; i(cid:374) ro(cid:373)e, the (cid:373)easure (cid:449)as la(cid:449). (cid:863) Greek schoolkids learned the iliad; roman schoolkids memorized the twelve tables (450 bce) (cid:862)let others fashio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) (cid:271)ro(cid:374)ze (cid:373)ore lifelike (cid:271)reathi(cid:374)g i(cid:373)ages but ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)s, (cid:374)e(cid:448)er forget that government is your medium!
