Western Civ Blog 49

Today on our online western civ class we had to describe the structure of the Roman government, and how that republic compares to our present-day US government. Your blog should discuss these two topics. Slides 9-12 talked about how bad of a leader Tarquin was. He did many crazy things as a leader, like blackmail a women and then it ended with her killing herself. Tarquin tried to cover it up, but the whole family ended up getting expelled from Rome. He was an old school Tyrant. In slides 13-22 it talked about how the Roman government is compared to how the US government is run today. It also talks about the 3 branches of government. These are the similar to the 3 branches in the United States. The slides also describe how government officials were elected and what their role was. It also explains more about the Plebeians and Patricians.