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Rome-From Village to Empire-1!7!13
Rome-From Village to Empire-1!7!13
Village to Empire
c. 750 BCE: Latins (tribe) settle what becomes Rome
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farmers
c. 600 BCE:
Etruscans Conquer
Rome…
…Romans adopt
Etruscan alphabet,
art, gods, building
techniques (including
the arch)
In 509 BCE...
…the
Romans
overthrew
the
Etruscans
It’s interesting to note that this was the precise time
that we think of Greece as entering its Classical Era.
Unlike the Athenians, who had a direct or participatory
democracy, the Romans established a representative
democracy, or, a REPUBLIC…
PAX ROMANA
During this period: