Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.15

SS24.7.15 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.7.15a

  Trace the growth of the Roman Republic, using a variety of thematic and political maps.

• SS24.7.15b

  Explain the social and cultural outcomes of economic activities within the Mediterranean region, including the establishment of colonies that influenced each ot...

• SS24.7.15c

  Analyze the social, political, and economic effects of the Punic Wars.

• SS24.7.15d

  Summarize the influence of Roman legal and political systems on later societies.

• SS24.7.15e

  Describe the internal and external factors that led to the eventual collapse of the Roman Republic.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students use maps to track Rome’s growth around the Mediterranean. They explain how trade, colonies, and the Punic Wars changed Roman life and politics. They describe how Roman law influenced later societies and why the republic ended.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can compare two dated maps and identify land Rome gained after fighting Carthage. They can explain how conquest brought wealth and enslaved workers, widened gaps between rich and poor, and fueled conflict. They can name a later use of written public law and explain how disputes in the Senate and armies loyal to generals weakened the republic.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students often mix up the republic with the later empire. Some think Rome fought Greece in the Punic Wars, rather than Carthage. Others blame one invasion for the republic’s end and miss the role of inequality and civil wars.

04

How to Assess It

Give students maps of Rome in 264 and 146 BCE. Ask them to mark one territory Rome gained and write one political or economic effect of the Punic Wars.

1. 01

   Give pairs printed maps from 264 and 146 BCE; have them shade new Roman territory and label Carthage, Sicily, and the Mediterranean.

2. 02

   Ask students to write how trade between Roman settlements and their neighbors could spread both goods and customs, with one example of each.

3. 03

   Run a card sort matching debt, enslaved labor, Senate disputes, and armies loyal to generals with their effects on the republic.

4. 04

   Give students a Twelve Tables excerpt and a modern posted law; have them underline how each makes a rule public.

• SS24.7.16a

  Explain Rome’s shift from Republic to Empire, including economic, political, and geographic causes.