Notes by Chi Cago

Today I got to take notes from the one and only, Chi Cago. Here is how it went...

Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome, Rome...

A study guide from Chi Cago

Who Settled?

Etruscans

• from north-central part of peninsula
• metalworkers, artists, architechts   

- (Two foundation myths)

• Virgils Aeneid (Aenea escapse Troy)
• story of Remus and Romulus

Greeks

• had many colonies around Medd. Sea
• Rome borrowed ideas from them (religion, alphabet, some art, military technique and weaponry)

Who's First?

The Latins!

• descendents of Indo-Europeans
• settled on banks of Tiber
• settled so training ships could navigate Rome, (no further)
• commercial port, not susceptible to attack and built on 7 hills (esp. Palatine)

(remus wanted Aventine, Romulus wanted Palatine)

Tiber River

• many streams flowed into it
• marshy area called Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline hills
• Tarquin the Proud's grandpa built Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient drain) which led water to tiber

(legend says D.C. was built on swamp, but actually only 2% is swamp.)

(Constitution Ave. is located on what was Tiber Creek)

Tarquin (Lucius Tarquinias Suberbus)

• 7th & final king of Rome
• known as Tarquin the Proud, reffered to as Tarquin the Arrogant
• true Tyrant, in old and modern sense of world

That is all for today.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day!

- Karlee :)