More Notes of Rome

Now Tarquin's kind of proud, but he got a little loud....

- Lucius Tarquinias Superbus

- The seventh and final King of Rome (test question)

- Known as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant)

- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word

....They turned around and ran that tyrant outta town / next thing you know, no kings no more...

- The people's  shock at this horrible family and their terrible behavior made them never want to be subject to the rule of kings ever again - this was an altitude that lasted for centuries 

Hey, we got three governments rolled into one Patricians and plebeians having some fun

- Rule of kings is replaced by rule of two consuls ("gotta be better than one")

- Consuls are elected officials 

- term of office: one year

- Always aristocrats (patricians)

- Patricians traced their descent from a famous ancestor, or pater ("father")

- duties: dealing justice, making law, commanding the army one consul could veto the other (reducing the power of the individual)

Then a challenge from the "regular folks"

- Fifth century BCE: patrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebs (people)