Rome
Who Settled Rome?
Etruscans
- Came from the North-central part of the peninsula
- metalworkers, artists, architects
- two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy), plus the story of Remus and Romulus
Greeks
- They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
- Roman borrowed ideas from them, such as:
- Religious Beliefs
- Alphabet
- Much of their art
- Military techniques and weaponry
Latins
- Descendants of Indo - Europeans
- Settled onto the banks of the Tiber
- Situated so trading ships - but not war fleets - could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
- A commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
- And built on seven hills (except Palatine)
Swamp Drainage
- Many streams flowed into the Tiber River
- There was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
- Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber
Tarquin
- Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
- The seventh and final king of Rome
- Known as Tarquin the Proud (also known as Tarquin the Arrogant)
- A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word
- Tarquin seized the power like an old school tyrant
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