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    that sparks political debate even today. One of the more controversial events occurred a relatively short time before Caesar’s rule and when of the Roman Republic when Senators were brutal in their methods of winning elections. The Roman election of 63 B.C.E. had become the foundation for the conspiracy against a Roman senator Cicero by another Roman senator popularly known as Catiline. Ultimately, Catiline’s plan had been unveiled and despite trying to incite a revolution, he had died fighting as

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    Roman tribunes were military or civil officers in ancient Rome consisting of a group of up to ten individuals that hold great power over the Roman government (Johnson). Chosen by the people, some responsibilities or Roman Tribunes include; protecting people from the acts of magistrates and prosecuting individuals that violated the law (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica). According to tributes and triumphs, a Roman Tribune is “an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from

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    The Camping Mishap

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    mishap Lium was watching the clock in an old, boring, beige classroom while tuning out Mr. Tucken giving a lecture of the importance Roman empire… only 5 minutes to go until he was free from the long lectures, tests, essays, and science projects. Lium was dazed thinking of the wonders of summer when his teacher snapped his name, “Lium...LIUM!” Why did the Romans fall to the barbarian tribes that lived outside the empire?” Mr. Tucken said in a sharp tone. Right before he was going to answer the

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    that experience and confronted Joseph Paine how he felt. Mr. Paine explained that he was new and that it would take no time to start doing something that carries weight. Mr. Paine encouraged Smith to write his own legislation and present it to the Senate. This filled Mr. Smith with purpose, so he began to work on his legislation. He needed Ms. Saunders help though, and she didn’t think much of him because he was “too sappy”. His idea was to make a boy’s camp in the summer so they could experience

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    the fight for Rome's transfer from a monarchy to a republic, the Roman populace united in its entirety to achieve one goal, to get rid of the kings. The Roman population consisted of two classes: The Patricians and The Plebians, in which their unity was crucial in the long struggle of ending the unjust monarchy. While the plebians were less privileged in the aspects of economics and politics under the former monarchy, the early Roman Republic witnessed an absolute domination from the patricians to

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    on the Julius Caesar book, people lived in this kind of environment. Although most things were different back in the ancient days, they also had something that were similar to the modern world. They had people to protect them chosen by the society. Roman Tribunes are officers assigned to protect people's rights, and they are essential to the play because the people obeyed them and they are unhappy about the upcoming king which could change the perspective of the society. The word Tribune came from

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    Roman Social Classes

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    social classes with clearly defined roles that allowed for limited social mobility. There was a large gap between the wealthy upper class and the lower classes as well as slaves. Three main factors decided one's class, including wealth, freedom, and Roman citizenship. A person's social class determined what education, pastimes, and occupations were available to them. These classes included the elite upper class, a

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    Augustus was a great emperor. Both sides provide great usages of rhetoric, however, I believe that the Tribunes won by a narrow margin because their usage of rhetoric was more stronger and provide a great argument in regards of referencing morality in Roman society. The Senator on the Tribunes side uses children as the main point of the argument. One famous quote that stood out to me during her speech was “The minds of the children will be polluted if {free speech}is not controlled.” While it is a

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    The Athenian and Roman governments both had similarities in their form of government, but the differences that they had made them unique because of the parties and rules they lived by. To start off, the Athenian Government was a democracy and the Roman Government was a republic. Each of them had very important specific details which make them unique and different like what made them citizens and able to vote for the officials, and how they organized their government system. To begin with, both of

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    Roman Republic or Roman Empire Arthur Erickson said that, “Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today”. In Rome got two kinds of government, and there were Roman Empire and Roman Republic. Both of them had different structures to development on many aspects in Rome such as laws, equality and rights of life’s Roman where Rome wanted a democratic system. Although, it has helped later to now, in that time

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