SOCY 122 Midterm: CLST 101_Midterm Review.doc
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Citizenship process pay to become a citizen. Given to some of the people who lived in italy. Slaves who had obtained freedom could also become citizens. Settlements chosen to be well protected from enemies. Also had important resources for life: rivers transportation, agriculture, lands agriculture, close to the coast. Surrounded by tyrrhenian sea, ionian sea and adriatic sea. Other people in italy spoke different languages. Etruscans easy to read, not spoken since 1st c. ad: literature was no longer copied or spoken, interest in language was lost. Surrounded by hills very easy to defend. Tiber river ran through early rome: tiber island. Built bridges (pons sublicious) to easily cross the river. Salt was and important commodity: used for preservation of food, salary originates from salt, used as money people paid in salt. Most early knowledge comes from archaeology; no written text.