western civ day fourty-nine

STUDY GUIDE

• Etruscans settled Rome
• Came from the north-central part of peninsula
• Metalworkers, artists, and architects 
• Two fundamental myths
• Virgils Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from Troy)
• Story of Remus an Romulus 
• Greeks also settled Rome
• colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed these ideas from the Greeks
• religious beliefs
• alphabet
• art
• military techniques and weaponry
• Latins were the FIRST settlers
• descendants of Indo-Europeans 
• settled on the banks of the Tiber
• trading ships could navigate as far as Rome
• commercial port- not susceptible to attack
• built on seven hills- Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal, and Viminal
• Remus wanted Aventine
• Romulus chose Palatine
• Many streams flowed into the Tiber 
• 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
• Constitution Avenue in D.C is located on what used to be Tiber Creek
• Lucias Tarquinias Superbus
• Seventh and final king of Rome
• known as Tarquin the Proud
• true tyrant, in the old and modern sense