Today we are taking notes
ROME:
- was bulit on 7 rolling hill around the Tiber River, near the center of the Italian peninsula
- it is the midway pont between the Alps and Italy's southern tip
- From 1000 to 500 B.C., 3 groups inhabited the region and fought for control of it
- they were Latins, Greeks, and Etruscans
- the Latins built the original settlement at Rome. It was a cluster of wooden huts on top of one of the seven hills
- Between 750 and 600 B.C., the Greeks established colonies along the southern part of Italy and Sicily
- The cities became very prosperous and commercially active
- They brought all of Italy, including Rome, into closer contact with Greek civilization
- Estruscans were native to northern Italy
- they were skilled engineers
- they were very influential in the development of Roman civilization
- Romans adopted their alphabet
- Also the adopted some of their architecture, especially the arch
- Republic- form of government in which the power rests with citizens who have the right to vote for their leaders
- In rome, citizenship with voting rights was granted only to free-born adult male landowners
- Patricians and Plebeians were different groups of Romans struggled for power in early republic
- Patricians- the wealthy landowners who held most of the power
- Plebeians- the common person, but could still vote. Usually farmers and merchants
- Patricians inherited theor power and social status, and claimed that they had the right to rule due to their ancestory
- The barred the Plebeians from holding high offices in the government
- In tome, the leaders of Rome, allowed th Plebeians to from their own assembly and elect their own representative to protect theor rights from the Patrician officials, they called this their tribunes
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