april 11

Today in class we went over the powerpoint for the textbook pages we took notes on yesterday in class.

Etruscans
- came from north-central part of the peninsula
- metal workers, artists, architects

Two foundation myths
- Virgil Aeneid
( where Aeneas escapes from Troy)
- The story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
       - religious beliefs
       - alphabet
       - much of their art
      - military techniques and weaponry


Latins
- descendants of Indo - Europeans
    Indo means people lived as far as India
    Europeans means people lived all around the country of Europe
-Settled on the banks of Tiber
- Situated so that trading ships-but not war fleets-could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
- a commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
- was built on 7 hills


Remus wanted Aventine
Romolous chose Palatine


They drained a swamp
- many dreams flowed into the Tiber River
- there was a marshy area called the Forum between Palatine and Capitollne Hills
- Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloca Maxima ( largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber


Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
-The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarquin the proud ( sometimes referred to as Tarquin the arrogant)
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the world

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