CLST 101 Lecture : Week 1 - Intro to Rome.doc

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 101
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Citizenship: born into roman citizenship, slaves could also be given citizenship if made a freeman. One of the ways to become free was to pay for it. Rome placed in the middle of the boot". Important to have a settlement where they can defend themselves and to acquire resources (such as rivers). Also good to be placed close to the coast. Geography: the alps help to protect rome, apennine mountains as well, sicily and sardinia close, tyrrhenian sea (to the left of the boot, ionian sea (underneath the boot, adriatic sea (to the right of the boot) They spoke a different language as romans spoke latin and they spoke etruscan. Etruscans use a greek alphabet so not difficult to understand. The shape of the palatine hill and the capitoline hill were easy to defend. Tiber river - island within the river (tiber island) Salt is important in antiquity as it is a part of the diet.