CLST 201 Final: Chapter 1-3 for 201 exam.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 201
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

West coast of italy was the most favored fertile lands and many harbors. Etruria: the land of the ancient etruscans, is the northernmost; this region of fertile land saw some of the earliest centers of urban life. 2 important plains occupy the coast to the south: latium: the latin plains ran from the sea to the foothills of the. Rome would rise here on the banks of the tiber: campania plain is the southernmost of the three regions. Italy occupies a strategic point in the mediterranean world the island of. After the first appearance of agriculture around 4000 bc, italy was a land of villages with simple forms or economic and social organization. To the east of italy, in the balkans and beyond, complex and highly organized societies, ruled by kings wit the assistance of bureaucratic and military elites, were firmly established in the second millennium bc.