Western Civ

Today in class we went over the slide show and took notes.
Who settled Rome?
Etruscans
- Came from north. - central part of peninsula.
-Metalworkers, artists, and architects.
Two foundation myth:
-Virgil's Aeneid (where Aeneas escapes from troy- sound familiar?)
-The story of remus and Romulus.
Greeks
-They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea.
Such as:
-Religious beliefs.
-Alphabet.
-Much of their art.
- Military techniques and weaponry.
Latin
-Descendents of India. -Europeans.
-Settled on the bank of tiber.
- Situated so trying ships. - But not war fleet. - Could navigate as far as Rome. But not further.
-A commercial port, but not susceptible to attention.
-And... Built on 7 hills (esp. Palatine)
They drained a swamp
-Many flowered into the Tiber.
-there was a marshy area called the Farum between palatine and Capitoline Hills.
-Tarquin the Prad's grandfathers built the cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain). Which channeled water into the Tiber.
Tarquin's
-Lucius Tarquins superbus.
-Seventh and final king of Rome.
-Know as a Tarquin the _____ or arrogant.
-A true tyrant in the old and modern sense of the world.

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