3 main groups to settle in Rome:
- Latin's were the first people to settle in Rome
- Etruscans and Greeks
- River: Tiber river
- 7 hills so you can see your enemies coming
- They thought Rome was so perfectly located, they thought it was their destiny
- They drained part of the swampy area and stuff so they could build stuff on that part of the land
- They said lets change everything
- Diverting the flow of the river
- Tarquin the Proud was the last king that Rome/Italy ever knew
- They ran him out of town
- Res publica: the people's business
- They voted to elect people to represent them
Republic
- Democracy
- Monarchy
- Aristocracy
2 consuls
- President is like a king
- The senate is worth a lot of dough(money)
- 100 senates in all 2 per state
- The senates are like the aristocracy from back then
- Plebeians: The Roman common people including workers. small farmers, and wealthy people who were not Patricians.
- Patricians: (Upper class citizens who belonged to the oldest and noblest of Roman families.)
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