- Etrscans
- came from the north central part of the peninsula
- metalworkers, artist, architects
Who else settled Rome?
- Greeks they had many colonies around the mediterranean sea
- Romans borrowed ideas from them
- religion
- alphabet
- much of their art
- military techniques and weapons
The first settled there?
the Latins
- descendants of Indo-Europeans
- settled on the banks of the Tiber
- Situated to trading ships but not war fleets could navigate as far as Rome
- a commercial port, but not susceptible to attacks
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