Who settles in Rome?
Etruscans
- Came from the north-central part of the peninsula
- metal warkers, artists, architects
- Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aneid plus the story of Remus and Romulus
Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
~ Religious belief
~ Alphabet
~ Much of their art
~ military techniques and weaponry
Latins (first to settle)
- Descendants of Indo-Europeans
- Settled on the banks of the Tiber
- Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
They drained the swap
- Many streams flowed into the Tiber
- There was a marshy area called Forum, between Palatin and capitoline hills
- Tarqin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water int he Tiber
Train the Proud
- Lucius Tarquinia Superbus
- The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarqin the Proud
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
- Tarqin sized power like and old school tyrant.
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