Rome

Here are today's notes from class...

The Story of Remus and Romulus:

-Remus and Romulus were twin brothers, and as babies were abandoned to die because of the wrong doing of a Goddess and a human having kids.The river carried them to safety, nursing off a wolf. A Sheppard and his wife found them and took care of them. The twin eventually became great natural leaders & went back and killed the one who abandoned them. End the end they fight over where their new city should be and what it should be called so Romulus kills Remus over the great city.

City-State Empire: The Roman Republic 
-Indo European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula.
-Etruscan people, originally from the East, settled North of Italy
-Romans also influenced by Greek settlements such as the Alphabet
-Rome was first an anarchy which had an council of Elders called a Senate
-Rome overthrew the monarchy and created a Republic
-Patricians=Rich.....Plebeians= ordinary citizens
-Senate elected 2 ruler councils 1 term
-Law of Rome are recorded on the Twelve Tablets
-Mixed government of patricians and plebeians had many checks and balances just like today.