cyber day 21

• Rome was first settled by the Etruscans
• They were metalworkers, artists, architects
• they came from came from north-central part of the peninsula
• Greeks also settled in Rome
• Romans borrowed ideas from them
• they burrowed religious, beliefs, alphabet, much of their art, military techniques, and weaponry
• The Latins came FIRST 
• descendants of Indo-Europeans
• settled on the banks of the Tiber
• They drained a swam
• there was a marshy area called the Forum,  between Palatine and Capitoline Hills
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
• the seventh king of Rome
• the last king of Rome
• known as Tarquin the Proud
• he was a tyrant 
• Rule of kings is replaced by rule of two consuls
• consuls were elected
• served for 1 year
• fifth century BCE - patrician dominance of the government was challenged by the plebeians