CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ekam, Sabines, Mudbrick

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

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Talk about the regal period, where rome was ruled by kings. Rome is in the centre of italy near the west coast (15 miles away from the coast), on the tiber. Rome is part of latium, where the people speak latin. Colonists from greece in southern italy and in sicily. Rome was on the eastern side of the tiber river, and it was at a location that was easily fort-able (at 2 bends) There were the seven hills , often used in literature and speeches, but there are more than seven. Very wet area due to flooding around the bends of the river, so people first lived on top of the hills. Used the river as a resource for food, animals, travel. Rome was connected to other communities in italy by the tiber river. Salt was a commodity in ancient times, found on the shore of the sea and transported up the.