5/8/20

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  • Estrucans who came from north central part of peninsula settled in Rome.
  • They were metal workers, artists, and architects. 
  • Greeks also settles in Rome and had many colonies around the mediterranean.
  • Romans used many of greeks ideas/believes
  • The Latins were the first to settle in rome
  • the Latins were descendants of. Into- europeans 
  • many streams flowed into the tiber
  • marshy area between platine and capitoline hills is called the forum.
  • Tarquin built the cloaca maxima (the largest ancient drain) 
  • Tarquin is the seventh and final king of Rome 
  • Known as Tarquin the proud 
  • Tarquin was a true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the world. 

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