Classical Studies 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Numa Pompilius, Old Italic Script, Urnfield Culture
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Italy before the romans: palaeolithic and mesolithic (40,000-4,000, neolithic revolution (4000, sedative life style: domestication of plants and animals, chalcolithic (2000-1800, use of copper tools, bronze age in italy, 1800-1600: early bronze age, 1600-1300: middle bronze age. Influx of indo-european speakers from the north: apennine culture (similar to pottery in balkans and greece) Influence from mycenaen greece: participation in metal trade: 1300-1100: late bronze age. Influx of more indo-european speakers from the north: urnfield culture (cremation and burial in urns) Increase in settlement size: 100 people per village: no cities (urban culture) yet! Indo-european: terms: aryan, indo- germanic, linguistic label for related languages, similar words for agriculture horse, weapons- semi nomdadic pastoralists, patriarchal social structure, organized in tribal kinship groups, polytheistic. Pythagoras: enormously influenced by phoenicians and greeks, tyrrhenoi, tusci, or etrusci, rasenna, etruscan alphabet (from greeks in cumae, territory, sources of etruscan history: greeks and romans (biased, luxury!, economic life, agricultural, metallurgy, fine crafts, trade, political organization.