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rudimentary;beginning; at an early stage around 500 years before christ, the romens occupied an embryonic city-state on the tiber river | embryonic |
a preference of a leaning the romens were orderly and disciplined, with a predilection for written laws and political organization. | predilection |
a hill or rise of ground the densely wooded eminence called the palatine hill was surrounded by marshes and thus well protected from enemies. | eminence |
the art of foretelling the future the romens priests adopted from the etruscans the practice of divination, in order to foresee comeing events and to find out the will of the gods. | divination |
an early example or form, on which later stages were based in etruria hand -to hand combats took place that were the bloody prototypes of the later roman gladiater battles. | prototype |
exemption from punishment a roman father could sell his children as slaves or even kill them with impunity. | impunity |