ON TO ROME!!!!

ON TO ROME!!!! We have now finished with Greece and its time to move on to what is probably one of the greatest and most influential empires in history (hint: Rome). Our BLOG assignment for tonight was to take notes on LO-1 and post them on our BLOG. Here are my notes.

                One of the questions answered in this section is “Why is Rome so successful?” The answer is Italy was able to host a large population, which leads to large armies. This as one may be able to guess is what allowed them to conquer so many lands. Rome was originally formed when several villages on the 7 Hills combined to form what we know as Rome! Probably the most influential civilization conquered by Rome was Greece. I say this because I think everybody knows that the Romans copied many parts of Greek culture even their gods! The other influential civilization were the Etruscans who originally ruled Rome but were eventually overthrown at c 500 B.C. along with their system of government which they called “res public” meaning “people’s business.” This is where we get our term republic from.