chi-cago notes

Early Rome

• who was in Rome?
• the Etruscans 
• came from the north-central part of the peninsula
• metal workers, artists, and architects
• greeks
• the greeks had many colonies around the Mediterranean
• Romans borrowed ideas from the greeks such as:
• religion
• alphabet
• art
• Latins
• decedents of info Europeans
• settled on the banks of the Tiber
• on the Tiber
• settled on the hills close to the Tiber
• had to build dams to drain the swamps in the area
• Lucian
• a true tyrant
• last roman king