Notes on Rome

Rome was settled by the:
  • Etruscans 
    • the north-central part of the peninsula
    • metal workers, artists, architects
  • Greeks
    • Had many colonies around the Mediterranean sea
    • Romans borrowed many ideas from them like:
      • religious beliefs
      • alphabet
      • art
      • military techniques and strategies
  • Latins (First Roman settlers)
    • 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
    • a commercial port, but not susceptible to attack
    • built on seven hills

    Many streams flowed into the Tiber. 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

     King Tarquin
    • Lucius Tarquinius 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 word

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