Outline
I. Pre-republican Rome
II. The early Republic and the "struggle of the orders"
III. The republican constitution
IV. The career track of a republican official
V. Roman expansion in the early republic
VI. The First Punic War
VII. The Second Punic War
VIII. The Third Punic War and the foundation of Roman imperialism
IX. The economic basis of political turbulence
X. The Gracchus brothers and the beginning of the Roman civil war
XI. Marius, Sulla and the rise of client armies
XII. The decline and fall of the Roman republic
 

Terms from this week’s lectures
Romulus
Remus
Etruscan
Tarquin the Proud
Lucretia
republic
res publica
patricians
plebeians
struggle of the orders
Twelve Tables
consuls
Senate
censors
Centuriate Assembly
Tribal Assembly
centuries
proletarians
Tribal Assembly
tribunes
plebiscites
quaestor
aedile
praetor
Po
Etruria
Veii
Gauls
Celts
Pyrrhus
Epirus
Punic Wars
Punici
Pheonicians
Carthage
Tunisia
Appius Claudius
Sicily
Polybius
praetors
Hannibal
Cannae
Philip V
Scipio
Zama
Africanus
Cato the Elder
"Carthago delenda est" ("Carthage must be destroyed")
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
Verres
Gaius Marius
Arpinum
Sulla/Sylla
Jugurtha
Anatolia
Mithradates VI of Pontus
Samnites
Catiline conspiracy
triumvirate
Pompey
Crassus
Julius Caesar