8/28/24
● Mainly agricultural
● Wine and oil culture (northern was butter and beer)
● Famine was a threat, poor technology for agriculture
● Transportation issues
● Rich ppl bought small scale farms, became major state’s/plantation
● Was the Roman republic before the empire
● Men would join military for citizenship and land (20 year term)
● “Bread and circus” food and entertainment to prevent uprising
● Octavian disguised his dictatorship as a democratic republic
● Citizenship was very valuable and most people didn’t have them
9/9/24
● Before Christianity, Rome was polytheistic with many “cults” (religions)
● Romans would worship the emperors as Gods, “genius of the emperor” usually after
death
● Judaism started to form in small regions
● Romans thought it was weird to be monotheistic (having a smaller team) but respected
the ancient-ness
● People in power didnt like Jesus because those who are in charge of keeping the peace
get nervous when faced with large gatherings of any kind and tend to overreact (cough
cough stonybrook protests)
● Jews allowed Gentiles to join Judaism but not have to give up their food/eating habits
and not have to get circumcised
● Women important to Germanic society
● Raiding was very popular, started with nearby villages by was contradictory to male
bonding
● Germans should marry Germans not Romans as said by Tacticus
● Romans found trousers barbaric
● Comitatus - the loyalty between men than aristocrats
● Wergild - the monetary value of a man
● Arian — Jesus isn’t god (branch of Christianity)
● st Anthony - resisted temptation, first monk
● Pachomius - made the first written rules for monks
● Simeon Stylites (Simon of the column) - wasn’t a community kind of guy so he searched
for multiple pillars to climb and isolate
● Peter: Founded the Catholic Church, was called to by Jesus and told that he would
change his name to Peter and lead the apostles as he built his temple on the rock
● Symmachus: Pagan who promoted the mystique of Rome. The mystique is why the
bishop of Rome was seen as the greatest
● Mainly agricultural
● Wine and oil culture (northern was butter and beer)
● Famine was a threat, poor technology for agriculture
● Transportation issues
● Rich ppl bought small scale farms, became major state’s/plantation
● Was the Roman republic before the empire
● Men would join military for citizenship and land (20 year term)
● “Bread and circus” food and entertainment to prevent uprising
● Octavian disguised his dictatorship as a democratic republic
● Citizenship was very valuable and most people didn’t have them
9/9/24
● Before Christianity, Rome was polytheistic with many “cults” (religions)
● Romans would worship the emperors as Gods, “genius of the emperor” usually after
death
● Judaism started to form in small regions
● Romans thought it was weird to be monotheistic (having a smaller team) but respected
the ancient-ness
● People in power didnt like Jesus because those who are in charge of keeping the peace
get nervous when faced with large gatherings of any kind and tend to overreact (cough
cough stonybrook protests)
● Jews allowed Gentiles to join Judaism but not have to give up their food/eating habits
and not have to get circumcised
● Women important to Germanic society
● Raiding was very popular, started with nearby villages by was contradictory to male
bonding
● Germans should marry Germans not Romans as said by Tacticus
● Romans found trousers barbaric
● Comitatus - the loyalty between men than aristocrats
● Wergild - the monetary value of a man
● Arian — Jesus isn’t god (branch of Christianity)
● st Anthony - resisted temptation, first monk
● Pachomius - made the first written rules for monks
● Simeon Stylites (Simon of the column) - wasn’t a community kind of guy so he searched
for multiple pillars to climb and isolate
● Peter: Founded the Catholic Church, was called to by Jesus and told that he would
change his name to Peter and lead the apostles as he built his temple on the rock
● Symmachus: Pagan who promoted the mystique of Rome. The mystique is why the
bishop of Rome was seen as the greatest
