Gabriella Spilker                                                                                              4/20/15

   
                                                        West Civ

     Today in West Civ we took notes about Rome. Below I have listed some of the notes I took today.

• Etruscan, Greeks, Latin all settle on the peninsula 
• the Greek colonies are on the tiber river
• indo European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the tiber river creating Rome the city state
• there was also a myth about how Rome was found the myth was about the twin brothers of remus and Romulus there mother got pregnant with them from the God Mars. However, they were abandoned and sent down a river. Then all the sudden a she-wolf saved them and raised the kids. Later on a Shepard and his wife found the boys and then the boys were natural leaders. They went back and killed the person who abandoned them and then fought over which hill they would have. While they were fighting Romulus kills Remus and then he finds Rome. 
• The Etruscan people were originally from the east but had settled in north Italy were an early influence on the Romans
• The Romans were also influenced by the Greeks
• They learned the alphabet and city state organization 
• Originally Rome was a monarchy but over threw the monarchy in 500 BC
• each year they elect 2 senate 
• they can serve for a total of 1 year 
• and if they are in total crisis they will only have one but they can only serve for 6 months 
• they did not want just one person getting all the power