Warm-up

1. Warm-up • Copy HW • Please make the page entitled Geography and the early Development of Rome page 5 • Please read page 339-40 in your RED textbook and complete the back of page 5 in your notebook

2. Essential Questions • How can societies use what they learn from the past? • What happens when different cultures come in contact with one another?

3. How did Rome begin? • Romulus and Remus Story. • Twin boys abandoned by Tiber River and raised by a shepherd. • Boys tried to build a city together but fought. • Romulus killed Remusand named city Rome.

4. Historical Origins of Rome • Between 1500-1000 B.C. it is believed that Latin speaking people from the north entered Italy in search of warmer climate and better farmland. • These people built the city of Rome in central Italy on the Palatine Hill.

5. Culture Influences on Rome Etruscans Greeks By 800 BCE Controlled Etruria By 600 BCE ruled northern and central Italy including Rome Greek colonist established towns in southern Italy and in Sicily Many Greek traders traveled to Rome

6. Etruscans Engineering Sports Arch Cuniculus Gladiators Chariot Races

7. Greeks Architecture Writing Marble>Concrete Parthenon>Pantheon Columns Temple, stadiums, public buildings Greek alphabet adopted by the Etruscans and then the Romans Important documents carved in public places Writer such as Virgil built on the Greek writings

8. Greeks Art Religion Pottery Painting/Sculpting -“Greco-Roman” art Greeks-perfection Romans-life like Gods controlled life Rituals and sacrifices Blended gods from other cultures with their own ideas Adapted names… Zeus-Jupiter Romans were more concerned about rituals than stories

9. Closure • Please complete The Geography and Origins of Rome practice quiz.