CLA 1102 Study Guide - Roman Kingdom, Tiber, Pomerium
11 Jul 2014
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Latium is the flat wide area in the middle of the mountains. People wanted to live there because it is easily defended by mountains, has volcanic soil, good for agriculture, has good water supply. The tiber offers good transportation to sea and inland. It"s a lot cheaper to travel by water. Tiber island makes it easy for people to cross from latium. It becomes a cross for trade (north to south). To the north is the ethruscans, they seem to have come from modern turkey. The south of italy was founded by greeks. There was timbre, stone, metal, minerals and salt in latium. Salt was desirable then. (side note: salary= salt, natural resources). Etruscans from the north were the most important people, very powerful. They drained the swamp and started burying people in the swamp between mountains (1000-900 bc) 830-770 bc- there was huge population growth, in rome.
