Rome...Origins, Rise and Fall of the Republic

Rome...Origins, Rise and Fall of the Republic

Roman Origins

The Founding of Rome

Learning Objectives:

• Compare the myth and reality of the founding of Ancient Rome
• Apply the geography of Rome to the reality of its founding and subsequent growth
• Analyze the reasons underlying the founding of the Roman Republic

Key Terms:  

• peninsula
• agrarian
• Latins
• Etruscans
• Greeks
• Tiber River
• Romulus and Remus
• Palatine Hill
• Tarquin the Proud
• res publica
• Republic

Here we go...

Welcome to the History of Western Civilizations!!

Ancient Wisdom

Classical Era Civilizations

• Ancient Greece
• Minoans and Mycenaean 
• Greek Dark Age and Homer
• Age of the Polis
• Greco-Persian Wars
• Age of Pericles (Golden Age Greece)
• Greek philosophy

Soon there will be links to the above concepts for the purpose of study.