The Geography and Early Development of Rome
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- Location and Geography of Rome
- Myth of Romulus and Remus
- The Etruscan Influence of Engineering
- Rome is located in Italy and it resides on a peninsula which is a strip of land with water on 3 sides. Italy looks like a boot kicking a ball.
- The Etruscan Influence of Sports on the Romans
- there was a royal family that was fighting against each other and the princess was banished to the temple of the god of war. Where she got pregnant by mars the god of war when her uncle the king found out he sent servants to kid nap them and drown them in the river.
- The Greek Influence of Architecture
- the Etruscan crafted the arch and the cuniculus The Romans used both those things in there engineering. The arch was made of two major pillars that held up the arch. cuniculus was a underground water chamber the transported water through Rome.
- The Greek Influence of Writing, Art, and Religion
- Chariot racing one of the most vial sports that was created where a man or women would ride a horse to race they could be thrown or trampled and killed. People came from all around Rome to watch, they got this from the Etruscan.
- The Romans took the design of the Greek theaters and put two of them together to form the Colosseum. The roman temples resemble the Greek temples with columns
- The Greeks had many gods of them were the 16 of the biggest and most popular gods, The Romans took those gods changed there names and clothes and made them roman gods. The Greeks made pottery that made it's way to Rome where now people call art they can't tell apart Greco-Roman art. The Romans changed the Greek alphabet and mildly changed some letters to from the roman alphabet.
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