HIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Capitoline Hill, Magna Graecia, Esquiline Hill
12 Sep 2018
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Italy map: 260000 sq. kilometers: know all points on the map, the alps separate italy from the rest of europe. Tiber, valturnus, ilirs: magna graecia: great greece, the peninsula itself is 1040 km in land, but never more than 200 km wide, agriculture, buildings, 4000 bc. In italy there were small conglomerations of people homed with simple huts. Built with thatching and posts: on settlements common finds are tools of stones, animal bones (if hunters), less than 100 inhabitants in 4000 bc. These huts were found near rivers: they planted barley and wheat. Circa 4000: circa 2000 bc, we begin seeing copper tools and ornaments. This is when archeologists called this the roman. Limited range of tools, weapons, and ornaments of bronze. In the presence of a warring faction now. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin which means they probably had outside influence.
