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The Late
Roman Republic
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Roman Military
• Originally aristocrats (Patricians)
– Defend Rome
– Protect your property
– Supply own armor, horse, weapons
• Later, any citizen (Patrician or Plebeian) allowed to join
– Plunder and pillage; get rich !!!
• Much later … “Have a pulse?”
– Any male (rich, poor, non-citizens, slaves, vampires, whatever!)
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Roman Military
• Powerful, well organized, disciplined
– Contubernium • 1 tent group • 8 men
– Century • 10 contubernium • 80 men + officers + support staff = 100 • Commanded by a Centurion
– Cohort • 6 centuries • 480 men + officers + support staff = 600 • Commanded by the senior Centurion
– Legion • 10 cohorts • 4800 men + officers + support staff + 120 cavalry = 6000 • Commanded by the Legate or one of the Consuls
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The Punic Wars (264-146 BC)
Rome vs. Carthage
• Rivalry to control Mediterranean trade
• Rome
– Master of Italy
– Next… the Mediterranean !!!
• Carthage
– In northern Africa; modern Tunisia
– Part of Phoenician Empire (with Tyre)
– Huge Mediterranean trade network
– Wealthy and powerful
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First Punic War (264-241 BC)
Carthage
– Hamilcar Barca
– huge army
– huge navy
Rome
– Marcus Regulus
– huge army; no navy
– builds a huge navy
• Fight for Sicily
– Carthage and Rome volunteer to “help” fight in a civil war on Sicily
• Actually, both just want to control Sicily
– Rome builds a navy
– Rome wins; gains Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica
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Second Punic War (218-201 BC)
• Revenge
– Carthage hates Rome and wants to regain lost territory from First Punic War
– Carthage wants revenge for losing 1st war
• Fight for Spain
– Peace treaty is broken
– Hamilcar dies; Hannibal takes over
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Second Punic War (218-201 BC)
• Hannibal – Marches elephant army to Italy
– Recruits Rome’s enemies into army
– Defeats Rome at Battle of Cannae
• Fabius Maximus – Attack and retreat (attrition)
• Scipio Africanus – Hannibal retreats to Africa; Scipio follows
– Defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
• Hannibal drinks poison • Harsh peace terms set stage for
Third Punic War
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Third Punic War (149-146 BC)
• Carthage
– 0 for 2 against Rome
• Rome
– Irritated that Carthage WON’T DIE !!!
– Rome wants to end this rivalry forever
• Delenda est Carthago! – Cato the Elder often stated,
Delenda est Carthago! (“Carthage must be destroyed!”)
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Third Punic War (149-146 BC)
• Rome picks a fight
– Uses an ally in Africa to start the war
• Salt in the fields
– Rome captures Carthage
– Burned to the ground
– Salt sown in the fields: no longer grow crops
– Survivors enslaved
• Mare Nostrum
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Trouble in
the Republic
• What were some of Rome’s
problems in the late Republic?
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Rich vs. Poor
• Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus • Tribunes supposed to help the poor
• Killed by the rich for trying to help the poor
– Tiberius • reduced the size of the
latifundia, giving the extra land to the poor
• clubbed to death by angry Senators
– Gaius • gave grain to the poor
• killed by an angry mob of aristocrats
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The Social War (91–88 BC)
• Rome vs. its neighbors
– Rome’s neighbors fight for the same citizenship rights as residents of Rome
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Civil War (87 BC)
• Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla
– Generals who fought for
control of the Senate
– Sulla defeated Marius to become dictator
– This showed that force was an effective way of controlling politics • Julius Caesar followed
their example
• Napoleon, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, the USA ???
Marius Sulla
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Slave Rebellion (71 BC)
• Spartacus
– Slave trained as a gladiator
– Led a slave rebellion
– Defeated by Roman generals Crassus, Pompey, and Lucullus
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Republic
509 BC – ???