HIST-W 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Palatine Hill, Pontifex Maximus, Roman Concrete
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Greeks, tuscan, latin, celtics all spreading new ideas. Great advantage of romans is ability to utilize other peoples ideas. 1,200 bc - first great civilization of italy, western coast. Built to look like their houses- copied everything in stone. Conquered by the romans slowly, interweaving into their culture. 753 bc, palatine hill founded by romulus and remus. Historical- palatine hill, records nd 700 bc as the start. Veii, an etruscan city was just miles away. b. In 509 bc, roman revolt rids it of kings. Along with the other small latin cities around them. Under the new republic in 396 bc rome conquers the etruscan city of veii. 387 bc- the gauls (387 bc), came down from france into rome. The gauls were there to rape, pillage, and burn, halting romans conquest. a. b. Painted themselves with blue war paint (hallucagenic and antiseptic), white spiked hair, and naked.
