People to settle in Rome
- Etruscans
- Greeks
- First people were Latin's
Notes
- Rome was in the middle of the peninsula
- They were in the middle of the world
- Italy was in the middle of the med sea
- Found a way to divert the water to not make land saturated and marshy
- Drained out swamp and took water flow from other rives and diverted it into Tigris river
- Tarkin the proud was the last Roman King; tyrant; didn’t listen to his advisors; he was ran out of town
- Romans took many things from the Greeks
- Res publica - the people business; where the word republic comes from
- Republic is part democracy, monarchy and aristocracy
- instead of a king, there were 2 consuls (president/king)
- Senate and the house of representatives, u.s. is modeled after Roman government
- Senate runs every 2 years
- They discovered what kind of government they want to have
- u.s. went to roman government but gave more power
- Plebeians(middle class) and patricians(aristocrats) and slaves
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