CLA160H1 Lecture 12: CLA160 Lecture 12 Notes
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Romans values greek culture, literature, and art embedded, transformed it for their own civilization therefore greek civilization did not die similarities in near east with sumer connections between greek and roman civilization. Rome first a small town, a village at the time of the first half of the first century b. c. small town existed on italian peninsula. Many different native italic people lived there: etruscans were very powerful at the beginning, greeks in the southern area and sicily colonized in the western. Mediterranean in the 5th century b. c. , even before rome became a village. Carthage as a phoenician colony that became a powerful player in the first half of the first century b. c. Etruscans lived in the area of modern day tuscany. Latium middle part of the peninsula general geographical area. Romans and related italic tribes with similar language and culture. Rome was just one of them until about the 5th century b. c.
