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Introduction to Ancient Rome
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 11, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
pomerium, distances, gods, 9th, million, Iron, cippi, sacred, power, inaugurated, Barbarians, urban, 27
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Rome
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1st century
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the largest city in the Roman Empire
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one                people
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9th century BC
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settlement
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one part of settlement
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one of the largest settlements in the          Age
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subdivided into      smaller regions
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Palatine Hill
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Capitoline Hill
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core of           
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6th century BC
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larger than the        century BC
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more complicated
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larger wall
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main roads flowing into the            area
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no more small regions
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four regions
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1st century BC
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had 14 regions
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numbered in counter clockwise order
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included area on the left bank of the Tiber
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3rd century AD
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end of Roman Empire
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                     were invading
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city had to shrink
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created a new wall cutting off much of the left side of the city west of the Tiber
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in ancient times, being a city meant being blessed by the         
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you could have only one section blessed or                        by the gods
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the              area of the city was the Palantine Hill
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the line that enclosed sacred area was called the                 
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the pomerium was enlarged many times
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today, we know where at least some ancient pomeriums were by the            that are still present
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cippi, n. small, low pillars, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients to indicate the                    of places or landmarks

Ideas and Concepts:

Vocabulary learned via tonight's Ancient Rome class:

"The pomerium was a religious boundary around the city of Ancient Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its pomerium, while everything beyond it was simply territory belonging to Rome.

The term is a classical contraction of the Latin phrase "post moerium", which meant "behind the wall". However, the pomerium was not a walled area, but rather a legally and religiously defined one marked by boundary posts called cippi.

It was forbidden to bury the dead inside the pomerium. During his life, Julius Caesar received in advance the right to a tomb inside the pomerium, but his ashes were actually placed in his family tomb.

Provincial magistrates and generals were forbidden from entering the pomerium, and resigned their imperium immediately if they crossed it. Ceremonies of triumph, in which an army would march through the city in celebration of a victory, were an exception to this rule, although a general could only enter the city on the very day of his triumph, and would be required to wait outside the pomerium with his troops until that moment.

Under the Republic, soldiers also lost their status when entering, becoming citizens:thus soldiers at their general's triumph wore civilian dress.

Weapons were prohibited inside the pomerium. Praetorian (imperial) guards were allowed in only in civilian toga dress. Since Julius Caesar's assassination occurred outside this boundary, the senatorial conspirators could not be charged with sacrilege for carrying weapons inside the sacred city."
Introduction to Ancient Rome
Latium from Bronze to Iron Age