- Roman valued the Greeks
- The Romans imitated and improved Greek methods and ways
- Government
- Began as a monarchy with kings
- Saw the Greek way with the senate to advise the king (senax- oldmen)
- The senate would meet and choose who would replace the king
- Republic-- res publica- the peoples business
- Rome thought it was important for the people to have a say in government
- War
- Took Greek methods and improved upon them and were more successful than the Greeks
- Roman army was the most feared at its time
- Used many Greek war methods and made them better
- Italy was in the middle of the middle; great location; better than Greece
- On seven hills, that helped because they could see enemies coming
- Believed Gods had given them the perfect location and thought they were the chosen ones to rule
- Similar climate to Greece, same latitude, but they did not plane olives
- They had all the advantages of Greece PLUS more room to grow crops- more people- bigger army
- Latins, Etruscan's, and the Greeks settled the Italian peninsula
- Patrician- Upper class families, must be born into them, wealthy- the men in charge; with land, money, influence, ect.
- plebeians- the common people including workers, small farm owners, AND wealthy people who aren't patrician
- A patrician farmer has many people working on his latifundia (huge area of land) and can sell it for a large amount of money
- Legend that two boys founded Rome, not the Latins, Etruscan's, and Greek's
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