CLA231H1 Chapter : textbook notes
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Latium, campania, etruria growth of wealthy social elites, urban centers in 7th/8th cent. Greeks: colonization south italy/sicily o: phoenicians: etruria rich in metals (lead, zinc, copper, silver, tin, iron ore on elba) Fertile plains: etruria, latium, campania with good waters. Apennine mountains cut through italy but not barrier to unity, easy passes. Tiber river has bend, curved shore, ideal landing. Bridehead near mouth of tiber access to etruria and latium/campania. Control over salt sea: seven hills, defensible, close to each other fusion. Indo-europeans: early bronze age, in northern italy 1300bc; linguistic, black and capsian sea. 1: etruscans: west, south; non-ie, alhapbet borrowed, veneti: northeast; metalworkers, horsebreeders, merchants, gaul: north; po valley = cisalpine gaul; overwhelmed earlier etruscans. 5: umbro-sabellians: ne, e, se; umbrians, sabines, smanites; pastorlaists, peasant farmers, need more land, greek: since 9th cent, southern; trading centers. Latin: west ; foothills/plain for herding/cultivating grain, forests, alba longa, lavinium, rome, tusculum.
