In 500 years of no nation has everything stayed the same and Rome is no exception. While the economics of Rome managed to stay the same between 100 and 600 CE, and the laws of Rome with it, government and religion in 600 CE would not be recognizable to leaders and civilians from 100 CE.…
-Spartans were part of the Greek tribe called the Dorian’s who ruled of the area of Laconia in the southern Peloponnese. It was located at the head of a small but fertile river plain (River Eurotas) which provided fresh water and marine life for them.…
Rome was first established according to legend by two twins with the names of Romulus and Remus. According to legend, they were thrown in the Tiber river to drown. There uncle was fearful of what they would become. A mother wolf found them and took them in as her own. When they were older they came across what was going to be called Rome. Romulus killed Remus so that he could be, what they called an emperor later on, the first king of Rome. Rome’s geography played a key role in it becoming a huge and powerful empire. Mountain ranges in the north kept the Huns and other invaders from coming into the empire. If your house was on a hill, it was less apt to get robbed and you were much safer. The Mediterranean Sea was the center for commerce and trade. Trade was a key part in how Rome became a dominant and powerful empire. Wealth brought power and influence.…
Somewhere between 900 and 800 BC, the Italian peninsula was settled by a mysterious peoples called the Etruscans. We don't know where the Etruscans came from, but archaeologists suspect that they came from the eastern Mediterannean, possibly Asia Minor. We will, however, never really know where they came from or why they colonized Italy. We do know that when they came to Italy, they brought civilization and urbanization with them. They founded their civilizations in north-eastern Italy between the Appenine mountain range and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their civilization stretched from the Arno river in the north to the Tiber river towards the center of the Italian peninsula; it was on the Tiber river that a small village of Latins, the village that would become Rome, sat. So the Romans, who were only villagers during the rise of the Etruscan civilization, were in close contact with the Etruscans, their language, their ideas, their religion, and their civilization; the Etruscans were the single most important influence on Roman culture in its transition to civilization.…
The Etruscan’s were the most advanced civilization before the rise of Rome. Their culture was well established but uniquely different from other surrounding cultures. At one time, they were compared to the Greeks and even favored to be the ones to win hegemony over the entire peninsula. They mostly congregated the area between Arno and Tiber rivers north of Rome. The Etruscans rose and fell from power within the span of four hundred years. The began evolving in the 8th century BC and continued their rise to power during the 7th century BC. They reached their peak during the 6th century, and fell during the 5th and 4th century BC. Their origins are truly unknown. There are three theories that scholars have speculated over regarding where the Etruscans originated. The first being that they migrated from…
From the Tuscany region the Etruscans extended to south to the area of Lazio, where they had contacts with other different social and ethnic groups, among them the inhabitants of the Greek colonies, located in the area known as the Magna…
From 3000 BC to 1100 BC Greece had only just began to develop by getting help from the Minoans that lived in Crete and the Mycenaean that lived in the main lands of Greece. During the Bronze Age in 1200 BC the Trojan War broke out between the Mycenaean and the Trojans of Troy.…
Analyzing Hesiod’s Theogony and other sources we come to the conclusion that the old Greek religion did not include a direct link as to the creation of the humans. They just co-existed with the Gods. Maybe they sprang from Gaea herself, it is not certain.…
There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the Rome area from approximately 14,000 years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites.[21] Evidence of stone tools, pottery and stone weapons attest to about 10,000 years of human presence. Several excavations support the view that Rome grew from pastoral settlements on the Palatine Hill built above the area of the future Roman Forum. While some archaeologists argue that Rome was indeed founded in the middle of the 8th century BC (the date of the tradition), the date is subject to controversy.[22] However, the power of the well known tale of Rome's legendary foundation tends to deflect attention from its actual, and much more ancient, origins.…
When he was just nineteen years old, Ceaser Augustus took over the Roman Republic and morphed it into the Roman Empire. Ceaser Augustus rose to power through the death of his father. In this essay, I will discuss the rise of the Roman Empire with the following issues: the reformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire, the steps Ceaser Augustus took to maintain safety, peace, and prosperity, and the resources that Ceaser Augustus used to accomplish his goals.…
The island of Crete was the cradle of an early civilization that later influenced the Greeks. The people of Crete had accumulated many ideas from the Egyptians and Mesopotamians. These people, although unknown what they had called themselves, are referred to as Minoans, after Minos; the legendary king of Crete. Their success was based upon trade rather than conquest, and their civilization reached its peak between 1600 BC and 1500 BC. The ideas and technology (i.e. writing, architecture, etc.) garnered from the Egyptians and Mesopotamians through trading posts throughout the Aegean world, were further adapted into the Minoan culture.…
Some believe that it began in ancient Greece, while others are certain it began long before it.…
* Minoans- not Greeks; civilization was the first to arise in the are of Greece…
Thracians was the Greek. The Greek went there around 2500BC. In the 1300BC, the Illyrians…
Ancient Romans claimed descent from Greeks, in fact the Great Roman poet Virgil wrote an epic poem entitled Aeneid where he tells that Romans come from Aeneas line who escaped from the Trojan fire to save his royal descent. He landed at Italy where married a princess named Lavinia.…