Class 4/20, Punic Wars

Notes:

• Legal Code- Rome/US
• Rome Legal Code:
• Twelve Tables
• Publicly displayed
• Gave right to plebeians, not just aristocrats 
• only protected free-born male citizens (not women)
• US Legal Code:
• Bill of Rights
• First ten amendments to the Constitution
• 1. free speech/religion/press
• 2. bear arms
• 3. no quartering
• 4. no search and seizure 
• 5. no self-incrimination
• 6. right to fair trial
• 7. jury trials
• 8. no cruel or unusual punishment 
• 9. right to privacy, rights are assumed
• 10. states have power when federal government doesn't 
• Roman legion- 5000 soldiers, not in it for the money (not yet), the Roman army's elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens
• Group of eighty's a century 
• On horseback is the cavalry
• Shield, sword, dagger, armor, and tunic
• the Punic Wars- 264-146 BCE, Rome vs. Carthage, three wars
• First Punic War (264-261 BCE)- naval battles for control of the strategic located island of Sicily, Rome wins this one