Roman History
Italy is a peninsula jutting out into the Medditerranean sea west of Greece. Italyhas poor mineral resources and very few useful harbors, however it is wealty in both fertile land and precipitation. Three - quarters of the peninsula is covered in foothills and mountains. The alps, a mountian range to the north of Italy, cut off the peninsulas only land connection, which resulted, in the times of Ancient Rome, in the people The Etruscans were mysterious people who settled on the Italian Peninsula somewhere between 900 and 800 BC. No one is really certain about their origin, however archaeologists suspect that they came from the eastern Medditerannean. The Etruscans ruled in north-eastern Italy, between the Appentine mountian range and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their civilization streched from the Arno River in the north to the Tiber River which is more towards the center of the Italian Peninsula. Te Tiber River is where the Roman Empire would sit years later. The Etruscans lived in independent city-states. In the earliest times, these city-states were ruled by a monarchy, but were later ruled by oligarchies that governed
times. In 70 AD the emperor Titus captured Jerusalem. His brother Domitian followed and elected officials. The Etruscans were largely agricultural people, became ruler of Rome. This would mark the beginning of the Roman Empire. course weren't available, therefore a new class formed in the cities of Rome, the urban, which would narrow the social gap in Rome. In 133 BC, Graccus Brotehrs led a popular into three equal parts, one section for each of them to rule. Soon, the second triunvirate office, owned large farms, and generally had more influence over things. They also Roman Peace was dominate from 31 B.C. to A.D. 180. Great prosperity and
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