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Today in class we took notes from the book on what will be on the Rome test. Those notes are:

• The Romans not only imitated Greek civilization but also improved on it, at least so far as government and warfare were connected.
• They arrived in a Mediterranean land with farming resources that were basically similar to those of Greece and they were able to support a large population.
• The Indo-European settler formed various tribal groups, among them the Latin people of central Italy.
• The Roman also borrowed directly from the Greeks. As part of their expansion across the Mediterranean in southern Italy as early as the 8th century.
• The king was advised by a council of elders called the Senate (Latin meaning old man) whose members he appointed.
• The people that settled in Italy were: Latin's, Etruscans, and the Greeks.
• The Etruscans were non-Indo-European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere east about the 9th century.
• It was the Senate and the patricians who dominated city-state.
• Around 500 bc, Rome overthrew its rulers and the monarchy was also abolished.
• The new government became the "peoples government" (Latin - res publica - republic)
• A mixture of the Greek style democracy and a oligarchy.
• Was run by the Senate.