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Video questions
1. How was private enterprise able to flourish during this time? How did it help shape the empire?
- High demand (dumb answer I know)
2. What did the elaborate mosiacs near the market depict? Slaves and wine.
3. What were the two most powerful forces that drove Rome's wealth?
- City of Rome
- Military of Rome

Julio-Claudian Emperors
* Tiberius - Thrifty and conscientious, but cold and suspicious
* Caligula - extravagant and unstable, possibly insane.
* Cladius - Awkward and studious, but an effective administrator
* Nero - Pretentious, self absorbed, irresponsible, and cruel

FIVE GOOD EMPERORS (This comes after the julio claduian emperors. my notes are kinda vague so srry)
- Absolute rulers, ended arbitrary executions
- Ended succession problems by adopting children who were not spoiled.
- Expanded imperial power
_ created new social programs and expanded public works, such as aqueducts, and roads.

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
- Baths of Circilb
Pantheon
Arch of Titus (hi)

FACOTS unifying the Early Empire
- Emperors and imperial government
- Provincial government
- Local administration of cities and towns
- Standardized urban plan (lots of the cities looked the same)
- Roman law
- Use of latin language

Roman Art & Architecture
*Adopted greek style
* More realistic than idealized greek art
* Painted portraits and landscapes on villa walls

Arch
- Used Greek style of rolonades on rectangular buildings
- Innovated with curved forms, such as arches vaults and domes
- Used concrete on massive scale

Engineering
- Built 50,000 mile network of roads and bridges as well as aqueducts to provide fresh water to Rome and other cities.

-------Key Literature authors and stuff----------

 Virgil
- Wrote Aenial, epic poem based on Homers work.
- Betrayed Aeneas and epitomizing roman virtues of duty, piety, and faithfulness
- Presented vision of Rome's mission.

Horace
- Wrote satire mocking roman follies common in that day
- Celebrated love, firnedship, and moderation
- Coined the term carpe diem, and auro medioaig( yea my notes died then sorry)

Livy
-Historian of early Rome
-Saw history in "moral terms"
- Presented legends of Roman virtue, such as former general Cincimattus

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ECONOMY
- Period of posterity, with peaceful conditions permitting uninterrupted trade
- Extensive trade, reaching beyond the Empire and even to China.
- Continuation of farming as chief occupation of slave dependent large scale agriculture on latifundia
- Huge gulf of rich and poor
- Urban poor relied on government hand outs of grain.

Slavers of ROME

 - Use of slaves common in empire, but were limited in the republic
- Number of slaves increased as a result of Roman conquests.
- Greek slaves were in great demand as teachers, artists, and doctors.
- Slave labor used on large plantations
- Slave revolts were a serious threat, such as Spartacus.

ROMAN RELIGION
- Worship (no what? really? no way.)
- Worship of defied emperors
- Rituals performed by the state priests to ensure success of the empire
- Hellenistic mystery cults for a more emotional spiritual experience



ROMAN GODS
Mercury - Messenger of the gods
Venus - Goddess of love and beauty
Ceres - Goddess of harvest
Jupiter - king of the gods
Saturn - Father of Jupiter
Neptune - God of horses, sea
Pluto - god of the underworld

MONTH SYMBOLISM?
January - Janus - God of doorways
March - Mars (god of war)
May - Maia (goddess of spring)
June - Juno (goddess of marriage