HIST 110A Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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Lecture topic 12: an old and sturdy race -the rome. Italian geography (the boot of italy): the italian peninsula has little arable lands, few navigable rivers and is crisscrossed with mountains. The romans" ability to impose unity on this fragmented boot attests to their military and cultural strength and determination. Those first in the land (etruscans fl. 800-500 b. c. ) Engineering and commerce: there was trade and commerce going on a. iii. Militaristic: they prisoners and take them back and forced them to fight each other, fight to the death as an entertainment a. iv. Festive and hedonistic (music): loved to be entertainment, they were a festive, orientated, playing society. In tombs, husband and wife were buried together. a. v. Religion and language: etruscan archeology: city of the dead in banditaccia necropolis. Who were the romans: the city of rome: a. i. Paris the trojan: believed that they were trojans. Romulus and remus: believed that there was a ruling family at.
