CLA 1102 : History Section.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Rome is made up of seven hills: palatine, aventine, capitoline, quirinal, viminal, esquiline, caelian, area around rome is called latium, people called latini. Site was chosen because there were lots of hill and during the iron age people wanted to settle on hills (better military advantage: rich soil from volcano, on the tiber river, drinking water and food, tiber has a good transportation out to the sea and inland, tiber island is a good place to cross, because a trading post essentially, easiest way for the north and south to trade is to go to through the tiber river, to the north; etruscans (6th century, most influential civilization for rome, seemed to have come from modern. Turkey and settled there: to the south; greeks, come from greece, started settling there during the 8th century, by the 6th century 36 cities, timber, metal, mineral, salt and fuel deposits, salt was the form of salary.