Sit with your groups Sit with your groups anywhere in the anywhere in the

room and continue room and continue working on your working on your

skits, please.skits, please.

Geography of Rome

❖ Italy was able to support more people than Greece did. They were also more united in their government and culture than the Greeks were.

❖ Based on the picture and the statement above, what can you hypothesize about the geography of Italy?

Geography of Rome❖ Italy is a peninsula in Mediterranean Sea

❖ Shoe “kicks” Sicily and “stomps” Greece

❖ Mountainous, but slopes level off to large flat plains that are ideal for growing crops

❖ Alps separate Italy from the rest of Europe

Geography of Rome

❖ What have we not talked about that a civilization MUST have in order to survive and be successful?

❖ Let’s review the water sources:

❖ Mesopotamia...

❖ Egypt...

❖ China...

❖ India...

Geography of Rome

❖ Located on Tiber River

❖ How is a peninsula beneficial?

❖ How is a peninsula detrimental?

❖ 15 miles from the Mediterranean Sea

❖ Located on seven hills.

❖ How is this beneficial?

How did Rome begin?❖ Romulus and Remus

❖ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1D9wd29jI

❖ What are the differences between this video and the story you read (or watched during the skits)?

❖ Why would there be such a discrepancy?

❖ The Aeneid

❖ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNVJNxkNSDs

How did Rome begin?

❖ Greeks and Etruscans shape Roman civilization

❖ What do you think the Greeks were doing when they came to Italy?

From the Greeks...From the

Etruscans...Grapes and olives Infrastructure

Greek alphabet Dress (short cloaks and togas)

Architecture, sculpture, and literature

Military ideas

Birth of a Republic

❖ Etruscans ruled Rome for more than 100 years (grew very wealthy)

❖ Tarquins, the ruling family, were cruel

❖ Romans overthrew Etruscan king in 509 B.C.E.

❖ Created a republic

Birth of a Republic

❖ Republic:

❖ form of government in which the leader is not a king or queen but someone put in office by citizens with the right to vote

❖ citizens have power

❖ How is this different from Athenian democracy?

Rome’s Strength❖ After Rome created the

republic, they defeated the Greeks and Etruscans, and finally ruled most of Italy.

❖ Army was AWESOME

❖ Every male that owned land had to serve in the army

❖ Legions: small group of soldiers (6000)

How could a legion make the military

more efficient?

Rome’s Strength❖ Rome’s rulers were very

generous to conquered people

❖ Allowed them to vote, serve in government, and run their own local affairs

❖ Had to pay taxes though

❖ Why would the Romans be so generous to the people they conquer?