Class Notes 4/2

• the Latin's settled first in Italy(Rome)
• They settled on the shores of Tiber
• Mediterranean means middle of the earth 
• The most educated people thought that the Mediterranean was the middle, best focus of the earth
• They thought that the gods gave Italy the location that they had because they were destined to rule
• Italians thought they were the best people ever. They were ambitious and arrogant.
• They drained swaps to build their towns on top and drained them into the Tiber
• Washington D.C. is built on some swap but no as many swaps as Rome
• Tarquin the Proud was a harsh leader who the people wanted to get rid of. They remove him from office and find them in the same position as Greece. They decide to set up a government like the Greeks but a little different. They rolled three different governments together and called it the Republic. Democracy, Aristocracy, and monarchy were the three leading ways they lead but not just one. 
• The United States are like the Ancient Romans. Executive is like the Monarchy, the president is the closest thing to a King the USA has.
• Aristocracy were the rich people and they were in a group called the senate, the US has a senate and the name is no coincidence they took the name from the Romans. The senate and 2 per state no more no less no matter what state. Every person in the senate is a multi-millionaire.
•  Democracy is the House of Reps, there are 438 people in the House. You must run every 2 years. The reps are numbered by population.  
• In Washington D.C. the columns were modeled after Roman Architecture.
• In a democracy in Greece they voted on everything you had to do. In Ancient Rome and US we elect people to vote for us because we would vote everyday and have no time to do anything else.
• America was founded in 1776
• Res Publica is a Latin word the business of the people
• plebian was common person met at assembly
• Rome love to have slaves, slaves were at the bottom of social chart
• patricians were the aristocrats met at the senate
• consuls were like presidents and Rome had 2
• if someone tried to get more power individually and they referred to Tarquin
• Has two consuls to keep an eye on each other