| A | B |
|---|
| April 21, 753 B.C. | Founding of Rome |
| Romulus | founded Rome, first King |
| Numa Pompilius | 2nd King, established religious practices |
| Tullus Hostilius | 3rd King, fought with Rome's neighbors |
| Ancus Marcius | 4th King, built bridge across the Tiber |
| Tarquinius Priscus | 5th King, expanded Rome |
| Servius Tullius | 6th King, took a census |
| Tarquinius Superbus | 7th King |
| Lucretia | raped by son of Tarquinius Superbus |
| Collatinus and Brutus | first consuls of the Roman Republic |
| 509 B.C. | beginning of the Roman Republic |
| Roman Republic | period when Rome amassed great territory |
| Scipio | defeated Hannibal |
| Punic Wars | between Rome and Carthage |
| Hannibal | great Carthaginian general |
| Mare nostrum | our sea |
| Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus | social reformers who were assassinated |
| Sulla | was a dictator after fighting with Marius |
| 27 B.C. | beginning of the Roman Empire |
| Augustus | first emperor |
| 44 B.C. | Julius Caesar assassinated |
| Second triumvirate | Octavian, Antony, Lepidus |
| 31 B.C. | battle of Actium |
| reign of Augustus | a time of peace and flowering of great literature |
| 476 A.D. | fall of Rome |
| senate | members held office for life, managed foreign affairs, declared war |
| SPQR | the senate and the Roman people |
| comitia centuriata | elected consuls, praetors and censors |
| comitia tributa | elected tribunes, quaestors, and aediles |
| cursus honorum | course of offices: quaestor, praetor, consul |
| senatorial order | also called patricians or optimates (officeholders or their descendants) |
| equestrian order | equites--wealthy class |
| plebeian order | working class, not wealthy |
| slaves | had no rights |
| freedmen | former slaves, could vote but could not hold office |
