Geography terms:
Physical:
Alps, Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Strait of Messina, Po River, Tiber River, Tyrrhenian Sea
Regions:
Egypt, North Africa, Gaul, Germania,
Cities:
Rome, Syracuse, Carthage, Pompeii Geography terms
Italian Tribes:
The Roman Empire begins as many smaller groups of Italian tribes.
Between 900 and 500 BCE, the peninsula was settled by the Etruscans, a group from possibly Asia Minor or the Eastern Mediterranean.
Etruscans brought urban civilization to Italy.
Etruscans had a Greek-like religion and language, strong background in sculpture.
As the Etruscans grew in power, a small group who settled along the Tiber River grew in the Etruscan shadow: The Romans. Italian Tribes
Romulus and Remus:
Story implies that:
Rome had divine origins,
Rome had powerful origins
Rome was built on conquering
Romans were able to defeat any obstacle Romulus and Remus