Rome Geography
- Rome was built on 7 rolling hills around the Tiber River, the center of the Italian Peninsula
- It is the midway point between the Alps and Italy's southern tip
First Romans
- Fromm 1000 to 500 B.c three groups inhabited the region and fought for control of it
- They were Latins, Greeks, AND Etruscans
- The Latins built the orginal settlement at Rome. It was a cluster of wooden huts on top of one the seven hills
Greek Influnece
- Between 750 B.C and 600 B.C the Greeks established colonies along the southern part of Italy and Sicily
- The cities very prosperous and commercially active
- They brought all of italy, including Rome, into cloer contact with Greek Civilization
Etruscans
- They were native to northern Italy
- They skilled metal workers and engineers
- They very influental in the development of the Roman civilization
- Romans adopted their alphabet
- Also they adopted some fo their architecture especially the arch
Republic
- is a form of government in which the power rests with citizens who have the right to vote for the leaders
- In Rome, citizenship with voting rights was granted only to free-born, adult, male, landowners
Patricians and the Plebians (came from Rome and the Early Republic)
- In the early repbuplic, different groups of Romans struggled for power
- Patricians- the wealthy landowners who held most fo the power
- Plebians- the common person, but could still vote farmers and merchants.
- The Patricians inherited their power adn social status, and claimed that they had the right to rule due to thier ancestery
- They barred the Plebians from holding high office in the government
- In tiem, the leaders of Rome, allowed the Plebians to form their own assembly and elect their own representatives to protect their rights from the Patricians officials, they called this the Tribunes
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