Letter to future self

 This year has been one for the history book. This school year started with rare events and ended with rare events. This 2020 has been overall a good year so far for me but its not me who is affected by the things happening right now. Covid-19 mainly affects the elderly which now I am everything but elderly. In this year so far we have lost almost 400,000 people who most likely would still be here. There is still more happening this year that has been drowned out by the virus such as North Korea is starting missile tests again, Russia is now almost a dictator ship, NASA found evidence of a parallel universe but it is not confirmed yet. As i am typing this there are peaceful protest and riots around the world from the US to England about the death of George Floyed. In all this year has had more and more things happen each month and it seems to be getting worse by the day. I hope that in the near future everything goes back to normal but it will be you that can tell what really happened this year. I just have a few questions for the future. How fast has technology increased? Is it faster or slower than the 1900s or earlier 2000s or did it get faster? What is the economic state of the world? How did we recover from this year? How long is 2020s chapter in the history text book?What ever the answers are I hope it is better than now.  Have there been any other pandemics since Covid-19. What ever the answer is I hope it gets better. I hope you remember this year for the good that happened  rather than the bad. If i am reading this the future got better than 2020

Day 50- Emperors

After the murder of Julius Caesar this grandnephew and adopted son takes control at 18. Octavian and mark become rivals. Mark partners up with Cleopatra sharing power. Octavian defeats them at the battle of Actium. Octavian becomes unchallenged ruler of Rome and is presented with the honorific Augustus. He was also given the title imperator now emperor. Rome has now become an empire. He ruled for 40 years. He started Pax Romana which lasted 207 years. His accomplishments were expanded into Africa, build road network, collected taxes, established postal service, increased grain supply, built public buildings, set up police, fire fighters started. He died of natural causes. Now after Octavians death power was passed down to emperors. Some were good some bad some awful. Tiberius ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD and was a good general but bad leader. After his son died he went into exile and died at 77. Caligula ruled for four years because he one a power cycle after Tiberius' death. He was an insane tyrant and was assassinated. After the Assassination a group tried to remake the republic but it didn't work. Next is Cladius who ruled from 41-54 AD and was a fair ruler but possibly had cerebral palsy. Died by poisoning from his wife who wanted her sin in power. Nero ruled from 54-68 AD and wanted to rebuild Rome. He over spent of it and arts and raided temples for money. Historians don't like him

Day 49- Caesar

I will be taking my test on June 2nd at 1:25- 2:15. The plebeians were poor and Juvenal said the only thing that would keep them happy and stop revolts would be to "give them bread and circuses". The bread being free bread from the government and the circus being entertainment like the Colosseum or parties. Generals let their soldiers share in what was taken from the area they were taking. Since the soldiers were sharing in the spoils they became loyal to their commanders and generals rather than Rome. The next leader in charge was Caesar who was a military general that conquered large amounts of area and was generally successful. Once he was a leader he helped the regular people happy along with people who were in high power. Caesar seized power and became a dictator. He made reforms to expand senate, increase solider pay, started colonies, granted citizenship. He was assassinated because of how he seized power and was stabbed before entering the senate. He was also stabbed by one of his close friends Brutus. This is the end of the republic

Day 48- 160-165

As Rome was growing it was causing a wider gap in poverty to where the poor were getting poorer. The two brothers tried to help the poor and proposed to limit the size of estates and giving land to the poor. The brothers made enemies with numerous senators who felt threatened by them. The brothers died during a civil war. Caesar too over in a military take over. The three who took over became the three rulers of Rome. He was a great military strategist and a good leader who followed the rules for a consul. Caesar went to take over Gaul and he was ordered to come back. He took his troops to Rome and defeated Pompey army. Caesar took over the government and became an absolute ruler but started different reforms such as increasing number of senator and created jobs for the poor. Fears grew about Caesar and he was killed. An empire followed after him which happened because of another civil war. A general went to live in Egypt which cause another civil war. Octavian came out as the leader of Rome and almost gave some parts of the republic back. Int the next 240 years there was Pax Romania that created peace in. The empire stood strong for a while because of giving jobs to the poor. There were good and bad emperors the bad being Caligula, Nero, Domitian and the good being Nerva, Trojan, Hadrian, Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius. Slaves were important to Rome and helped to build and support the empire. The emperors would become gods in Rome along with the regular gods. In this time the classes were getting further and further apart. Many building were created to take the peoples minds off of the mass control. New practices started up such as Christianity.

Day 47- Hannibal

Punic War Main Fighters-
Rome- Parts of Italy With Some Colonies
Carthage- Northern Africa

Roman Army- The roman army was made up of legions who were a group of 5,000 soldiers made up of cavalry and infantry.

First Punic War(264-241 BC)- Consisted of strategic naval battles for control of importantly located Sicily. Rome wins and gains control of Sicily.

Second Punic War(218-201 BC)- Main player in the war was Hannibal who was a 29 year old general who almost took Rome. He was a great strategist who attacked Rome from the north through Spain. He couldn't make it all of the way to Rome so he laid a siege for 15 years but couldn't complete the the victory of taking Rome. One of the things he is known fro is he took elephants into battle which scared Roman soldiers because they have never seen them before.

Third Punic War(149-146)- In this war Rome goes on the final push and takes Carthage. The people of Carthage are taken as slaves and Carthage was taken into a province of Rome.

Day 46- Two Topics

9-12: It started out with Tarquin seizing power and becoming a tyrant. His grandfather died  and his widow Servius Tullias becomes the king of Rome. One of their daughter decides to kill her husband and her sister to marry Tarquin. Tullia after killing her sister and husband she convinces Tarquin to take the place of king from his father and after becoming king he throws him into the streets where he is assassinated. Tullia then hails Tarquin as the new king. Tarquin has Tullia sent back home and onn the way home she sees the body of her father and drivers her chariot over his body and they refuse to bury the body. His son tries to take advantage of Lucretia and she refuses and Sextus black mails her. Tarquin tried to cover it up but the common people rose up and kicked them out of Rome. The people were getting suspicious of when they would be the next ones killed or exiled. The people wanted to get away from them before he would come for the people. Because of him it stopped Tyrants in Rome for a while











13-22: The Roman system is what the USA is modeled after so it has many similarity such as the branches of government. The branches being executive, legislative and judicial The executive being the president in the united states and in Rome it is the two consoles. the legislative branch is the senate in Rome and USA but they differ in the house of representatives and assemblies. The judicial branch were the supreme court in the US and in Rome they had the praetors. They both also had a sort of bill of rights while was the twelve tables in Rome.

Day 45- Study Guide

Who settled in Rome
Etruscan- More of artists and more focused on crafty type things
Greeks- Gave religious beliefs, alphabet, art and military strategy
Latin- they were first and set up a system for trading ships to could navigate to Rome but not war ships they also built on serve hills

Many streams flowed into the Tiber and was very marshy

Tarquin- final king of Rome, was a true tyrant

After Tarquin they didn't want anymore kings (long story)

The king is replaced with two councils of elected leaders

plebs were 90% of population and were discriminated against with bad laws

Res public- a new republic that incorporated monarchy, democracy and aristocracy

The USA used Rome as a template for government

They had the same three branches that were alike

largest roman army unit is legion

used shields, swords, daggers and Armour tunics

Punic wars were against Carthage

massive amounts of slaves entered Rome

The plebs are getting poorer

Soldiers started fighting for their military leader not Rome

Caesar was a great general who gained the support of the people

Caesar took over as a sort of dictator

increased the spending for the general people

After Caesar died it was generally the end of the republic

Octavian became the unchallenged leader of Rome

given title of imperator

Rome becomes empire not republic

after death power was passed to emperors