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Today in class we took notes :
Etruscans
came from the north-central part of the peninsula
metal workers, artists, architects
two foundation myths: Vigil's Aeneid (Where Aeneas escapes from Troy), plus the story of Remus and Romulus
What we know about them mainly comes from their paintings
Greeks

-They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea

-Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:

  -Religious beliefs

  -Alphabet

 Much of their art

 -Military techniques and weaponry

But who first settled there?

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

-A commercial part, but not susceptible…

They drained a swamp

-Many streams flowed into the Tiber

-There was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palentine and Capitoline Hill

-Tarquin the Proud’s grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber

Tarquin

-Lucius Tarquinias Superbus

-The seventh and final king of Rome

-Known as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the arrogant)

-A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word

-The people’s shock at the horrible behavior of Tarquin’s son and this horrible family made them never want to be subject to the rule of kings ever again – this was an attitude that lasted for centuries