CHAPTER 13

BEGINNINGS

Founding of Rome

1000 BC – 500 BC

SECTION 1

• FOUNDING OF ROME– Legend

• Aeneas• Latins• Mars• Romulus and Remus• She-wolf• Shepherd• City on the Tiber• The hills• 12 vultures• Rome

Who was where?

• Land around the Mediterranean Sea—1000bc– Egypt—New Kingdom– Balkan Peninsula– Palatine—The Latins

The Palatine

• Characteristics– Climate– Soil– Forests– Salt– Farmers– Crops

• According to legend, who built the city of Rome?

• What hilltop did one of the boys wait upon?

• Who was the supposed father of the two boys?

• Who rescued them from drowning?• What was the sign that Romulus saw that

convinced him he was to be king?

Section 2

• Etruscans

• 800 BC

• Etruria

• Alphabet

• Language

• Lydia

Characteristics

• Engineers

• Protective

• Highly civilized

• ‘people of the sea’

• Pirates

• Traders

The People

• Farmer– Iron tools– Barley, wheat, grapes & fruit– Pigs, goats, sheep, ducks, chickens, cattle

• Miners• Copper, lead, iron, tin• Weapons• Traded

Military

• Strong army

• Greeks

• Phalanx

• Secret weapon

• 600BC dominated N. Italy

Daily Life

• Party!!!

• Games

• Music

• More rights for women

Social Order

• Upper

• Middle

• Lower

Who owned what?

• Few—much

• 1-story homes

• (I do believe it’s time for a picture!)

Religion

• Many gods

• Greeks

• Temples

• Universe- parts

• Humans powerless

• Soothsayers

• Omens

Tombs of Gold

• Banquet

• Death fight

• Catacombs

• Necropolis

Section 3

• Etruscans and Romans• Lucius Tarquinius- 616 BC• 100 years• Culturally advanced• Architecture• Sewers• Forum• Language

Borrowed Customs

• Gladiator games• Triumph• Fasces• Soothsayers/gods• Capitoline• City boundries• Underworld• Mundus• Role in Roman development