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Prologue-Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Beard, Mary. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. Hardcover.

• Ancient Rome is important because it still helps us define the way we think about ourselves and the world.

• It continues to influence Western culture and politics.

• Rome has given us the ideas of liberty, citizenship, politics, and imperialism.

• What is known about the history of Rome has changed and evolved as various historians bring their perspectives and goals to the subject.

• In addition, new archeological discoveries change what is known and understood about Rome.

• The author explains that the book explores how Rome grew and sustained its position as a world power.

• The title is taken from a Roman catchphrase, “Senatus PopulusQue Romanus, The Senate and People of Rome” (16).

• The book also confronts myths and half-truths about Ancient Rome that the...

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