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First Indo-European settle around 750
Tiber River, in the low-lying seven hills of central Italy. in the middle of Italy in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea which was the center of the world.

What three groups of people dominated the culture of early Rome
-Latins
-Etruscans
-Greeks

Who was Tarquin the proud, and what was so significant about him?
Last of the Roman kings

Using our text, describe how Rome moved from a monarchy to a republic
-Ruled by Etruscan king(monarchy) who ever advised by rich patricians(the Senate - an aristocracy)
After Tarquin (no more tyranny), the government became res publica (the people's business), or        republic (like Greek democracy)

Describe the difference between a patrician and a plebeian
-Patrician: upper-class, landowning, established, connected, powerful
-Plebian: common people, workers, small-time farmers, some wealthy non-patricians

Define
-senate: government assembly of 300 (unpaid) patricians; appointed for life; first by kings then consuls
-consuls: two senators who led the government and military for one-year terms; could veto each other
-tribunes:leaders of the plebeian assembly; first rather powerless, gaining ground over the years

What is so important about the Twelve Tables ?
- marked the first time that laws were written in Rome
- set up to protect Plebeians who were getting pushed around by patricians
- publicly displayed in the Forum(450 BC)

The roman repulic serves as a model for what modern document, and what modern government?
- The Constitution of the -US  and its separation of powers
Senate/Assemblies US senate/House of Reps
Consuls/ Dictator-President of the US
Senate could act like judges-like our Supreme Court

Describe why only the rich could serve in the Senate
- members were not paid, but worked their way up from low- lancing magistrates to higher ones. They needed to spend a lot to look good popular. and powerful, making them electable Plebes couldn't afford to do that

The kings who ruled between 600 and 500 BC ordered the building of the Forum, Rome's political c