Rome Notes

Rome
- Ninth century - Etruscans, Greeks, Latin

City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic
Italy and Its People
- Remus and Romulus born by a god and a human. They didn't want them so they put them into the Tifris River. A mother wolf took them and raised them. Once they were adults, they were adopted my real people. They grew up and they wanted to build a city. They argued on the location of where the city should be. Romulus kills Remus and Romulus makes his city and names it Rome
- The Etruscan People, originally from the east, had settled in the north of Italy and were an early influence on the Romans.
- The Romans were influenced by the Greek settlements to their south and learned the alphabet.

The Roman Republic
- Originally, Rome was a monarchy on the Etruscan model with a council of elders call the "Senate".
- C.500 B.C., the Romans overthrew their monarchy and established a "Republic"
- Since the Senate was populated only by patricians (aristocratic men) the plebeians (ordinary citizens) fought for a vote for the senate elected two rulers, "conculs" who each serve a term of one year.
- As in Greek city-states, the Romans would appoint a single dictator in time on war or conflict.