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My Freshman Year of Highschool

My freshman year of high school was one fun, exciting, stressful, and weird year of my life. There was many changes that happened coming in from a public middle school into a private high school. This year I have made so many long term friends that are my best friends. This year my school was known as the germy school because we had every virus known to earth that came through our school at some point. We started with what everyone called the John Carroll common cold and it is just what it sounds like. We also had the whooping cough come through our school which I had never heard of until someone had it. And then we had a flu outbreak which is the virus I ended up getting. Me and my best friend both got the flu on the same day and we both left school on the same day at the same time. Then I remember hearing on the news about China having a new virus outbreak called the Coronavirus. At first I wasn't scared of it at all because I thought there would be no way that it would make it t
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Slides 43-52

-Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son-octavian takes over at the age of eighteen with his own triumvirate -Mark Antony is an experienced general -Lepidus is a powerful politician -Octavian forces the wack Lepidus to retire -He and Mark Antony become rivals -Octavian defeats them at the battle of Actium -He is now the unchallenged ruler of Rome -He was given the title imperator -This is where we get the word emperor -Now Rome is an empire -Octavian had 40 years of ruling -He began a stable era of peace -He expanded the Roman empire into Africa -Tiberius ruled from AD 14 to AD 37 -Caligula ruled from AD 37 to AD 41 -Claudius ruled from AD 41 to AD 51 -Nero ruled from 54 to 68
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Slides 32-42

I will be taking my test on June 2 from 8:55-9:45 AM. Tiberius Gracchus recognized the advantages of courting the plebeians (even though he was ultimately unsuccessful) military generals worked that angle - lead an army that conquers a land, then give them a share in the spoils soldiers’ loyalty was to their military leader, not necessarily to Rome or the Republic Julius Caesar was a highly successful general he conquered the huge territory of Gaul he made common folks happy made friends in high places He serves as a consul appoints himself govener of Gaul
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Essay Choice

A. Compare and contrast the  government of ancient Rome with the government of the modern-day United States .
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Notes 160-165

-The Gracchus Brothers were Roman brothers who tried to reform Rome's social and political structure to help the lower classes in the 2nd century BCE -The brothers were politicians who represented the plebs, or commoners, in the Roman government -Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman and general who played a critical role in the demise of the Roman Republic and the Rise of the Roman Empire -He was also a historian and author of latin prose -Octavian was a Roman Statesman and military leader who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14 -The first Roman triumvirate was an informal arrangement between Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus -The second one was legally recognized and consisted of Octavian, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony -Pax Romana was the peace which existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire
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23-31

-The Punic wars (264-146 BCE) -First Punic war -navels fighting for battle -Rome wins -second Punic war -Hannibal almost does the impossible:taking Rome -attacked Rome from the North -Third and final war -Rome wanted to finally remove the threat from Carthage -Carthage was burned for 17 days -the last 50,000 people were sold into slavery -Slaves poured into Italy -there were over a million slaves in Italy -
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Notes 9-22

-Tarquin seized power like an old school tyrant -Tullia pursuades Tarquin to seize the throne from her father -Years later Tarquins son Sextus and is friends are drinking when Sextus tries to force himself on a matron Lucretia, she refuses and he threatens to kill her -everyone was in shock at everything that their family had done -Rule of the kings are replaced by rule of two counsels -Counsels are elected officials -always aristocrates -fifth century patrician was challenged by the plebs -plebs were victims of discriminatory decisions in judicial trials -Rome had no actual laws -SPQR designates any decree or decision made by the Roman senate and people -The US modeled their government to be like Rome's -The only difference was that Rome had thw twelve tables and the US has the bill of rights
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