CLCV 1003 Chapter 1-20: CLCV-1003 Readings
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In the seventh and six centuries b. c some communities achieve the status of cities, with elaborate social systems, monumental buildings and temples, and formal public spaces, these were the chief centers of power in italy. t. The 3 regions facing the tyrrhenian sea had major impacts in the history of italy. Etruria, is the northernmost; saw some of the earliest centers of urban life. Latium occupies the coast to the south of etruria, east to west it went from sea to foothills. Rome itself rose from the timbers in the norther limits of latium. The campanian plain is the southernmost of the three regions. Archeologists refer to the time between the ninth century and the last third of the eighth as the. Beginning in the middle of the eighth century and continuing for the next three centuries, Etruria, latium and campania underwent a series of political, social, and cultural changes, this resulted in the first central italian city-states.