One of the Darkest things you will ever hear about Rome

Today we talked about Tarquin and how he got to be in power. I can't remember the story completely word for word but there was a lot of killing and driving over corpses and it was just crazy. After that the people of Rome decided NO MORE KINGS. So they got two elected officials to run at the same time called consuls. They had 1 year terms and one could veto the other if they didn't agree because both of them needed to agree. Consuls were always aristocrats or in this case since we are talking about Romans, they are called patricians. The regular common folk are called plebeians or plebs for short. The plebeians didn't like this because at that time there were more plebeians then patricians in fact Rome was 98% plebeians. At first the Romans just had customs, no laws but eventually laws were written in the form of The Law of Twelve Tables (written on stone tablets like the Ten Commandments.) There were also tribunes (tribal leaders) that were also elected. There was also a system called SPQR which stood for Senatus Populusque Romanum. Hopefully that's enough info for all of you so that's all for today.

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