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Etruscans

  • came from north-central part of the peninsula
  • metalworkers, artists, architects

two foundation myths: 
  • Virgil’s 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
  • settled on the banks of the Tiber
  • situated so trading ships (not war fleets) navigate as far as Rome only
  • commercial port, not susceptible to attack
  • built on seven hills (esp. Palatine)
  • many streams flowed into the Tiber
  • there was a marshy area (Forum)  between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
  • Tarquin the Proud’s grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima - largest ancient drain- channeled water into Tiber
    • Lucius Tarquinias Superbus
    • 7/ final king of Rome
    • known as Tarquin the Proud (Arrogant)
    • tyrant-old and modern sense 

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