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Classical West, The first Punic War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 500 B.C.E
      - Cause: Rome gradually turns into a republic with a complex society, which includes patricians (upper class) and plebians (the poor). Since Rome has fertile farmland and good transportation by water, their economy gradually started to get better and better.
      - Effect: Although the economy got better, most money was earned by the patricians while they don’t pay off a lot of work. On the other hand, the plebians, the people that put on their effort, don’t get a lot of money. In addition, this caused the rich people to get richer since they get money from the plebians, while the plebians get poorer and poorer.
      - Connection: This can be related to the future of Rome, where civil war happens, since the plebians don’t get their money paid, it means inequality between Plebians and Patricians.
      - Peloponnesian War
        
        431 B.C.E
        
        Cause: Before this period, almost the whole of Greece stood up and fight the Persians together, and as they succeed, the two strongest city-states (Athens and Sparta) formed the Delian League with other city-states, and this league formed because Greece fears that a strong enemy, such as Persia, will attack Greece again. Every city-state in this League will put money in this league for the strong city-states to build strong armies and ships, while when they are attacked, the whole of Greece will use the army to support them. However, later through time, Athens decides to use the money for themselves, instead of the whole of Greece. Athens used this money to build new buildings and decorate their city. Sparta, the other city states fear that the Athens will become too strong using the money, so the other city states attacked Athens with Sparta as the leader. After the war broke up, the Athens decide to call all the Athenians to escape into the city state, and everyone defend from others attack.
        
        Effect: The Athens’s idea seemed great, since the Athens are not good at fighting on land, while they have a good technique at fighting on the water so that they can defend Sparta and other city-states on water. However, a plague took place in the Athens city-state and around 25% of the population in Greece city-state. Then, Sparta invited the Persians to attack Greece together, and although Sparta seems to be winning, the Athenians win. However, although Athens won the war, Athens and Sparta, the two strongest city states in Greece spend too much money and effort on fighting each other, and this caused them to be very weak to fight other enemies.
        
        Connection: The result of the war connects to the future of Greece because the two strongest city-states in Greece are too weak to fight each other, this foreshadows that Alexander’s dad Philip will take over the whole Greece easily, which leads to the empire in the future
        
        Alexander the Great becomes the leader of Macedonian
        
        336 B.C.E
        
        Cause: Alexander is Philip, the ruler of the Macedonians and the guy who took over the whole of Greece, ‘s son. On Alexander’s sister’s marriage, Philip was assassinated. Therefore, Alexander becomes the king of the Macedonian Kingdom (the start of everything).
        
        Effect: After Alexander became the king, he did the things that his father wants to do. He took over Greece, and started to head east and north, taking over territories of other kingdoms, and made the Macedonian into an empire.
        
        Connection: Alexander probably needs to thank the assassin because, without that person, he won’t become the king so early and ruled the world so early (maybe Philip is also strong and can also rule Europe as well.
- - - - 81 B.C.E
      - Cause: After Sulla died, someone needs to be the next leader of Rome, and Caesar proves that he is a good military leader by successfully taking over Turkey with his strong army.
      - Effect: After Caesar becomes the military leader, he becomes very strong: he successfully won the fight between Rome and France, although France is very strong at that time. After that, he put his attention on politics, and he is eventually killed by another Senator because other people thought that Caesar had too much power and that the republic is starting to turn in to an empire.
      - Connection: Although the Senators killed Caesar because Caesar has too much power, this action caused Rome in the future to become an empire, which is ironic.
      - Augustus creates Pox Romana
        
        27 B.C.E
        
        Cause: After Caesar’s death, a lot of people start to gain power and they want to be the new leader of Rome, which includes Augustus. Therefore, the military leaders started a civil war inside Rome against each other in order for them to become the leader. In the end, Augustus won the fight and he became the leader.
        
        Effect: After he became the leader, it meant the start of Rome becoming an empire. From now on, the actual power is controlled by one person, the emperor. However, Augustus himself did not call him emperor, but “the first citizen”, which is kind of the same. Augustus created the strongest and biggest army in Roman history and at this point, Rome arrives at its climax.
        
        Connection: Augustus ruled Rome so well that even though he died, no matter how badly the emperors after he ruled, the government still can run by itself. In addition to this, Augustus also created a lot of temples and beautiful buildings, which helped Italy now to earn money from visitors.