Thursday, October 6, 2011

Thu, 10-6: Roman--and American--Republics

In Class: The Flaws of Republican Government, Past and Present


Practice Seminar: 
  • What were the main causes of the failure of Republican democracy in ancient Rome?
    • List them by category > specific examples
  • Are there parallels to the USA today?
    • Case study: Warren Buffett's "Buffett Rule"

Roman Republic Podcast is done.  You don't have to watch it now, but remember it when it comes test-review time. It includes many connections between past and present, and occasional analysis and insight that our boring textbook tragically lacks.

I did my best to squeeze the entire 500 years of the Republic into about 30 minutes. Download it here. Again: if you use iTunes to watch it, you can jump around to the chapters that you want to review quickly and easily. (Subscribe to the podcast channel in iTunes by going here.)


Here's the YouTube version. It has no chapter navigation, so iTunes is really a smarter choice.

22 comments:

  1. 1. social problem: military began to disband, and unrest within the people
    2. economic: gap between the rich and the poor widened
    3. political: republican form of government fell, and needed a dictator

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  2. One social problem was that the difference between the social classes became very big.
    One economic problem is the difference between the social classes which resulted in an inbalance in the economy.
    An example of political breakdown is that the republican form of government collasped.

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  3. 1-Social devision
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    3-The democracy system failed

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  4. Small farms unable to compete with estates using slaves
    Wealth gap between rich and poor
    soldier bore allegiance to who paid them not the state

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  5. Social:
    Economic: The gap between the rich and the poor never mended
    Political: The government never reformed back into republican party, but rather a major three person rule

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  6. 1. There were so many slaves that the rich could hire, which allowed them to beat out all the competition from small farmers.

    2.The gap between the rich and the poor became huge and many poor people were forced to work on wealthy estates, become menial workers, or become part of the urban poor.

    3. A civil war broke out so the army dissipated and lots of generals like Caesar tried to seize power. Eventually Caesar took power as a dictator.

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  7. -
    -the rich got too rich and the poor got too poor
    -the Roman Republic became an empire after Caesar took over

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  8. - Caused the difference between rich and poor to be very different
    - Caused them to lose a lot of money because the war was so long
    - Caused the government to fall

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  9. 1. The gap between rich and poor became much wider, causing fights between the classes.
    2. Poor farmers were forced to sell their land to rich landowners, tipping the scales and increasing the gap between rich and poor.
    3. The assassinations of Tiberius and Gaius after they tried to help the poor.

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  10. 1. People were equally unbalanced. (Poor VS. Rich)
    2. People had no money. Riches were growing bigger while poor people were remaining poor.
    3. Fall of their whole economy.

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  11. 1. There was a economic fall
    2. Inflation
    3. Democracy

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  12. One of the economic problems that arouse is that cartage did not have enough money to pay for the war.

    the polictical problem is that many of the people who were in politics used the war to allow themto remain in power.

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  13. 1. One social problem was that much of the society was corrupt after the war.

    2. One economic issue was that after the war trade was not as good and people were not getting as much money.

    3. After the war the government did not run as smoothly as they tried to sort out how to rule.

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  14. 1.Loss in morals and discrimination of new cultures. New conquered people were also often held as slaves
    2. High debt due to too high military spending
    3.The dept caused arguing between political parties and they couldn't agree to something together

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  15. I don't have the textbook.

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  16. For some reason I am one of three students in a class on 21 who doesn't have the book PDF.

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  17. For some reason I am one of three student in a class of 21 that doesn't have the book.

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  18. 1. There was debate about how to rule the new republic, patricians and plebeians.
    2. The gap between rich and poor widened and lots of people lost their jobs and because homeless.
    3. The republic way of ruling didn't work well with so much territory, so Rome became a dictatorship.

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  19. An example of a social problem after the punic wars was their different classes of society had a huge gap. The poor were extremely poor, while the rich had everything they wanted. The Gracchus brothers changed this by giving more land to the poor, so they could start earning money, and living.

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  20. The Republic collapsed, 1 third of the population were slaves from the war. this made it harder for smaller farmers to keep up with farms run by the enslaved prisoners. -Economic Issue

    Generals of the army tried to take over areas and this caused many problems in the political world. leaders found it harder to keep everyone under control. -Political Issue

    Justin

    Most of the people in lower class society became un happy with the way things were being run. -Social Issue

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  21. A political problem resulting from the end of the Punic Wars was that as the republic grew unstable, generals grabbed for power, and they recruited soldiers to gain control. An economic issue that occurred after the Punic Wars was there were large groups of poor people in the cities. And one example of a social problem after the Punic Wars was that there was slavery and racism.

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