Rome Notes

There are 3 Groups of people who settled in Rome, the Greek, Etruscan  and the Latins, and the Latins are the ones who came first. They made the city above a swamp that they drained out. "Tarquin the Proud" was the king and his son raped a women and the men didn't defend her, but finally when the woman committed suicide  the people realized how bad he was and over threw him and ran him out of town. The Romans formed a combination of Democracy, Aristrocy, and monarchy. They had a senate made up of rich people who had a lot of say in the government anyway. The government pretty much empowered the pleibians. The Roman legion was the best roman fighters and it was with about 4,000 people. within that 4,000 about 80 guys were known as the century, and they were mobile fighters. The Calvary was a group of men on horseback. There were 3 Punic wars all between Carthage and Rome. They both wanted to claim Sicily. The Romans only owned half, until the fought for the whole thing and then won it all.