ROME
- roman geo
- built on rolnig hills around tiber riber
- midway point between alps and italys southern tip
- first romans
- three groups inhagited the region
- latins, greeks, etruscans
- latins built the original settlement at rome
- cluster of woodent huts on top of one of the 7 hilld
- three groups inhagited the region
- Greek influence
- 750 and 600 bc the greeks established colonies in southern italy and sicily
- cities became prosperous and commercially active
- brought italy into closter contack with greek civilization
- etruscans
- native to northern italy
- skilled metalworkers
- infuectionl in the developent of roman civilization
- romans adopted there alphabet
- also atchitecture and arch
- Republic
- a form of government in which the power rests with the citizens who have the right to bote for there leaders.
- in tome citizenship with voting rights was granted only to free born adult male landowners
- Patricians and plebeians
- patricians
- welthy landowners who held most of the power(romans from the early republic)
- barred plebeians from holding high offices
- Plebeians
- common person, but could still vote, usually farmers and merchants(romans from the early republic)
- leaders of rome allowed plebeians to form there own assembly and elect there own representatives to protict there rights from the patrician officails they called this there tribunes.
- patricians
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