Starting the Rome Ppt.

Today in class, we started on the Rome powerpoint.

Who Settled Rome?

• Etruscans
• came from north-central part of the peninsula
• metalworkers, artist and architects
• *2 FOUNDATION MYTHS*
• Virgil Aeneid (where Aeneas escaped from Troy)
• story of Romulus and Remus

Who Else?

• Greeks 
• they had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
• Romans borrowed ideas from them such as
• religious beliefs
• alphabets
• much of their art
• military techniques and weaponry

First Settlers

• The Latins
• 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 the 7 hills (esp. Palatine) 

Drained a swamp

• many streams flowed into the 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 into the Tiber
• urban legend says DC was built on a swamp- but 2% was actually swampland - however, Constitution Avenue is located on what used to be TIBER CREEK

Tarquin's Proud and Loud

• *LAST KING OF ROME: LUCIUS TARQUINAS SUPERBUS*
• seventh and final king of Rome
• known as Tarquin the Proud (or Tarquin the Arrogant)
• a true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word.