How did rome govern and exploit its empire

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Assignment:

Give an explanation for each question

1.) You should be familiar with the major institutions and offices of the Roman Republic and how they worked, especially during the period of greatest stability between roughly 350 and 130 BCE.

Offices and institutions: Senate, Citizen Assemblies, Consuls, Tribunes, Censors, Plebiscites, Dictators

2.) In what ways did the design of the Roman Republic prevent one person or family from monopolizing power? In what ways did the design of the Roman Republic empower the common "people" and also restrict their collective power? In what ways did these "checks and balances" start to break down at the end of the second century?

3.) In what ways did the notion of "paternal power" (patria potestas) permeate the entire Roman political and social system? What rights, if any, did women have in Roman society?

Sources: The Twelve Tables, The Oppian Law

4.) How did Rome govern and exploit its "empire." How did Rome's imperial expansion destabilize its "republican" government in the first century BCE?

Key terms, events, figures: Socii (Allied Cities), Proconsuls/Propraetors, Punic Wars, Social War, Gaius Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar, First Triumvirate, Optimates v. Populares

5.) How did Augustus (formerly known as Octavian) "restore the republic" at the end of the first century while creating a dictatorship in disguise?

Key terms, names, events: Imperator, Princeps, Second Triumvirate, Battle of Actium

6.) You should be familiar with content of each of the following sources and use them effectively to answer the above questions (where applicable):

Livy's account of the repeal of the Oppian Law
Plutarch's biography of Tiberius Gracchus
The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

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