Rome

The king was advised by a council of elders called the Senate. The king would choose from the patricians or upper-class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest Roman families to be Senate. When the king died his successor would be chosen by the Senate. Around 500 B.C. Rome overthrew its Etruscan rulers, and the monarchy was abolished. Like Greek city-states, the Roman Republic which is the system of city-state government decision-making power was shared between the Senate and the assemblies of male citizens underwent a long and turbulent development under the influence of social struggles between aristocrats and commoners. The result of this was a mixture of Greek-style democracy and oligarchy. One side in the conflict of the Republic was the patricians and the other side were the plebeians. Plebeians where the Roman common people, including workers, small farmers, and wealthy people who were not patricians. The early time of the Republic was run by the Senate which was a government assembly appointed by the and under the Republic by the consuls; originally all members were patricians, but in time wealthy plebeians were appointed as well. Two of the senators functions as consuls (‘colleagues”) which are two senators who led the government and the military for one-year terms and appointed their own successors. In times of emergency the consuls, on advice of the Senate, could appoint a dictator. A dictator is a single leader with a full decision-making powers, appointed for a maximum six-month term. About 450 B.C. Rome made a code that have been engraved on 12 slabs of wood or bronze and mounted in the chief public square. They served as the foundation for the elaborate system of Roman law that grew up in later centuries. Farmers from the outside city had a larger say, began electing their own magistrates, called tribunes.  

Today we took a test. The test was harder then I thought it would be. It took me almost all of the class period to complete it. I am happy that we were able to use our blog because that helped me out a lot. The test was based on everything that we learned on the Greek paper, video, and the questions we answered.

Today in class we reviewed for the test tomorrow. We also watched parts of the video that may be important for the test. I hope the test will be easy but it probably won't because there is a lot of stuff we studied.

Today in class we reviewed for the test on Wednesday. We went over the 58 point quiz on Greeks to make sure that everyone got the right answer. We also learned about the play that was about Oedipus about how he killed his father and married his mother. It was a weird story.

On Friday I wasn't in school because I was sick so I have no idea what we did in class. I have no idea how I got sick. Hopefully we didn't do any big work in class when I was gone or learned anything that will be important in the future

Today in class we went over the notes that we did on Monday. We made sure that we had the right answers so we can get them correct on the test. We also went over the answers on the video we watched. We had to know the Cyber Day homework and the video paper for the test.