CLAS 335- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 335
• Professor: David Carlisle

Document Summary

Not thought of as an empire because they were not poli(cid:2210)cally uni ed. Clash of cultures greater than any other instance. Range of spread gets into turkey (cid:336)western asia(cid:337) Roman conquered neighboring peoples around greek colony so they could control land route for trading. Parts of provence, around massilia (cid:336)greek territory(cid:337) were integrated into the. Remainder of gaul and britain conquered between (cid:404)(cid:399)s bce and mid (cid:400)st century ce. Only signi cant evidence in (cid:401)nd century is epigraphic. Had only (cid:401) pockets of urban civiliza(cid:2210)on in narbo and massilia. Caesar began administra(cid:2210)on and further conquest in (cid:404)8 bce. Caesar broke massilia"s monopoly in (cid:403)9 bce. Augustus mad provence gallia narbonensis in (cid:401)7 bce. La(cid:2210)n quickly replaced cel(cid:2210)c in inscrip(cid:2210)ons and even gra (cid:2210) (cid:403)9 ce: narbonensis treated as the equivalent to italy. Central and northern gaul come into roman control in the (cid:404)(cid:399)s bce. Images of gauls= highly stereotyped by romans. Hard to sort out roman statements from reality.