HIST 1001 : History Test 3 Notes Fall 2012
Document Summary
Origins of rome: italian geography, under hellenistic kings, jewish customs become outlawed. Alexandria, the jewish decide to make a translation of the bible to. They used stone to build tombs; they buried the dead with stuff. The republic, 509-27bc: political system, tiber , etruscans- did casting and workings in bronze; showed development, palatine hill- one of the hills closest to the river in which evidence of the romans was found. The romans emerged early on as an agricultural people to a military people: romulus and remus- a king whose wife is pregnant. He asks many people what his wife is carrying eventually, he finds out he is having twin boys, but he is warned that they will destroy his kingdom. Romulus and remus are floating down the river after they released by their parents. A she-wolf finds the babies crying in their river, and instead of eating them, she decides to raise them.
