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  1. 1. Carthage was the capital city of ancient Carthage, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world.
  2. 3. executive branch. They commanded the army and directed the government for one year. Each consul had the power to veto, or overrule, the other.
  3. 5. pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system. pertaining to courts of law or to judges; judiciary: judicial functions.
  4. 7. They were mostly common farmers
  5. 8. tables= The Twelve Tables, which were inscribed on bronze plaques and posted in the forum for all Romans to see, represent the first formal codification of Roman laws. The laws dealt with legal procedures, debt, family relations, property, and other matters of law.
  6. 10. agustus= He is known for being the founder of the Roman Principate, which is the first phase of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest leaders in human history.
  7. 11. wars= Rome needed soldiers to fight in the "punic wars" which began in 264 B.C. The Punic Wars were a series of three long wars against Carthage
  8. 13. There were two consuls that led
  9. 14. Aurelius= His greatest accomplishment as Emperor was his ability to hold the Empire together through the Roman Empire's first true pandemic, the Parthian War, and the Germanic Wars
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  1. 2. The executive branch was made up of two consuls, elected yearly. These two consuls had almost kingly powers, and each could veto, or disapprove of the other's decision. It is quite possible that the idea of two consuls came from Sparta with its two kings.
  2. 4. It was a powerful body of 300 members that advised Roman leaders, most senators were patricians.
  3. 6. all male Roman citizients, they could vote, but they couldn't hold important government position
  4. 7. They were the upper class they were wealthy
  5. 9. who held all of the highest positions in government
  6. 12. Caesar= Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted less than one year before he was famously assassinated by political rivals in 44 B.C.E.