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Etruscans & Greeks
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Romonus and Remus | twins, threat to Father so he sent men to drown his sons at the river, before they drown, a wolf saved them and brought them back to the city, they conquered it . they fought over who would rule the city. Romonus killed Remus and called his new land Rome |
| Tiber River | were Mars (father of Romonus and Remus ) tried to drown them |
| Etruscans | dominated Eteria, Rome learned some building styles, and some architecture, like the Arch, them and the Greeks together made Rome, inhabits from Eteria, a land just North of Palatine |
| Palatine | Etruscans neighbors, one of the 7 hills in Rome |
| Coniculus | an irrigation system invented by Etruscans, long under grown trench, vertical shafts attached to the ground above, drain swamps, carry water to cities |
| gladiator | a person trained to fight another person to the death for public entertainment, mostly slaves |
| Latins | People from the acient country of Latuim, an area in what is now the country of Italy |
| Aeneas | one of the founders of Rome, during the time of Romonus |