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• 1st paragraph
• The Etruscans had a written language which Romans took most of their letters from
• Tarquin was their king and he was the last king they had.  People started to hate him
• 2nd Paragraph
• many different forms of government put together
• Carthage was in Africa
• 3rd paragraph 
• latifundia- a huge estate of villa (taken away from farmers after the war)
• Gracchus brothers-Tiberius and Gauis
• plebeians  nobles
• attempted to pass a lands reform that would redistribute huge pieces of patrician land among the plebeians
• assassinated for their attempts
• 4th paragraph
• he was appointed dictator for ten years 
• Julius Caeser got money from Crassus
• He entered a political with Crassus and Pompey (rich people) which was to dominate Roman politics for several years
• he made a decision to cross a river into Gaul (the leader of Gaul said if they crossed it then that would be considered an act of war)
• killed Caesar hoping to restore the government of republic
• 6th paragraph
• Cleopatra
• said she was a rencarnation of a goddess
• Octavian Antony and Lepidus formed an official three-man govermnet called the second triumvirate
• Cleopatra tried to take over Octavius power
• Antony fell in love with Cleopatra
• 7th paragraph
• Pax Romana-roman peace
• period of peace (207 years long
• Roman roads
• allowed them to move armies, trade goods, and communicate
• built like walls
• Gladiators
• human sacrifice
• Circus Maximus
• ancient Roman chariot raceing stadium mass