Chi Cago Power Point

Today in class, we went over a power point that explained the lyrics of Rome, Rome, Rome.
Etruscans
-Came from the North-central part of peninsula
-Metalworkers, artists, architects
-Two foundations myths: Virgil's Aeneid and story of Remus and Romulus- founding of Rome

Greeks
-Many colonies around the Mediterranean Sea
-Romans borrowed religious beliefs, alphabet, much of their art, military techniques and weaponry

Latins Settled First
-Descendants of Indo-Europeans
-Settled on the banks of the Tiber
-Situated trading ships- bu not war fleets- could navigate as far as Rome, but no further
-Many streams flowed into the Tiber
-There was a marshy area called the Forum, between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
-Tarquin the Proud's grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima (largest ancient trade), which channeled water into the Tiber
-1 of 2% of Washington DC was swampland
-Constitution Avenue is located on what used to be called Tiber Creek

The seventh and final king of Rome
-Known as Tarquin the Proud (sometimes referred to as Tarquin the Arrogant)
-A true tyrant, in the old and modern sense of the world
-The people's shock at this behavior made them never want to be subject to the rule of kings- attitude that lasted for centuries