HIST 2090 Midterm: Midterm Study Notes
22 Oct 2011
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Imperium the right to give orders and have them obeyed. Important because it allowed complete control for consuls and praetors and allowed for instant decisions in the face of threats. Capitoline sacred symbol of the state; ties in the ideas of religion, state, civic life. Jupiter, juno and minerva worshipped at the capitoline. Coloniae colonies" to protect the frontiers of latin/roman cities. Allowed roman influence in other parts of italy, the beginning of roman expansion. Lucius junius brutus expels the kings founder of the republic. Praetor important, annually elected roman magistrates who held military and civilian imperium. Their main responsibility was the supervision of the roman judicial system and the governance of provinces. The price of citizenship for an allied city; emphasis on military service. Satellite city-states came to see themselves as romans: rule through alliances and citizenship granting not magistrates and garrisons, no taxes only loyalty and military service.
