HIST 1001 Chapter : Rome
Document Summary
Origins of rome: italian geography, located in the middle of the italian peninsula, which is in the middle of the. They were farmer-soldiers: this is where they live, becomes where the leaders of rome live, romulus & remus, starts about an etruscan king, whose wife is pregnant, and he wants to know what the baby is. Soothseyers tell him that it is twin boys, and that they will grow up to destroy the kingdom. When the babies are born, they are put in a basket and put down the palatine hill. Tells her husband what happens, tells them to avenge her, and she commits suicide. They get an army of citizens and kill sestus and. They decide to never have a tyranny again. The republic, 509-27 bc: political system, the roman constitution is not written down. It is a huge roman victory: forces hannibal to surrender, kingdom of pergamum, the king died without a son.
