Blog Day Fifty! My Notes for Rome

Today for class we were asked to take notes from the PowerPoint on Rome. Usually I would write my notes in paragraph from, but today I am going to copy my notes in the same format as I wrote them in my notebook.

Rome

• Foundation Myths of Rome
• Virgil's Aeneid(Aeneas escapes from Troy)
• Romulus and Remus
• Etruscans settled in Rome
• Came from north-central part of peninsula
• They were artists, metalworkers, and architects
• Greeks also settled in Rome
• They had many colonies around Med. Sea
• Romans borrowed their ideas
• Religious beliefs
• Alphabet
• Art
• Military Strategy
• Latins settled in Rome first
• Descendants of Indo-Europeans
• Settled on Tiber's banks
• Trading Ships(not war fleets) could only travel as far as Rome
• Had a commercial port(not vulnerable to attack)
• Built community on One of the seven hills (Palatine)
• Seven Hills of Rome
• Capitoline
• Quirinal
• Viminal
• Esquiline
• Caelian
• Palatine
• The hill Romulus choose
• Aventine
• The hill Remus choose
• Rome was near the Tiber river and Ocean/Sea
• Lots of streams flowed into the Tiber
• Marshy area- called the Forum
• Forum was between Palatine and Capitoline hills
• Tarquin the Proud grandfather built the Cloaca Maxima 
• Cloaca Maxima
• Largest ancient drain
• Channeled water into Tiber River
• Legend says Washington D.C. was built on a swamp
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
• Seventh and final king of Rome
• Known as Tarquinius the Proud/ Arrogant
• Was a tyrant(both old and modern sense)

Those were my notes from the first eight slides of the Rome PowerPoint. Have a great weekend everyone!