Schicks Rap Notes

Etruscans

• Come from the north-central part of the peninsula.
• Metalworker, artists, architects.
• Two foundation myths: Virgil's Aeneid (Where Aeneas escapes from Troy- sound familiar)?, plus the story of Remus and Romulus

Who Else Settled in Rome?

• Greeks
• They had many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea.
• Romans borrowed ideas from them, such as:
• 1. Religious beliefs
• 2. Alphabet
• 3. Much of their art
• 4. Military techniques and weaponry.

The First that settled There

• The Latins
• Descendants of Indo-Europenas.
• Settled on the banks of the Tiber.
• Situated so trading-ships but not war fleets-could navigate as far as Rome, but no further.
• A commercial port, but not susceptible to attack.
• and.... built on 7 hills (esp. Palatine).

They drained a Swamp

• Many stream flowed into the Tiber River.
• There was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills.
• Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca maxima (largest ancient drain), which channeled water into the Tiber.

Tarquin is proud, but got a Little Loud

• Lucius Tarquins Superbus.
• the 7th and final king of Rome.
• Known as Tarquin the Proud (Often referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant).
• A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the word.
• The peoples shock at this horrible behavior 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.