History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . g hills bore straggling villages, and there was a strong-hold on a hill called the Palatine. Here, stopped by the shoals,moored now and then an Etruscan ship which had sailed up theTiber, the only navigable river in Italy. On the low marshyground, encircled by the hills, was an open-air market, which theycalled the Forum, where the Latin peasants could meet the Etrus-can traders and exchange grain or oxen for the metal tools orweapons they needed. Such must have been the condition of thegroup of villages calle
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . g hills bore straggling villages, and there was a strong-hold on a hill called the Palatine. Here, stopped by the shoals,moored now and then an Etruscan ship which had sailed up theTiber, the only navigable river in Italy. On the low marshyground, encircled by the hills, was an open-air market, which theycalled the Forum, where the Latin peasants could meet the Etrus-can traders and exchange grain or oxen for the metal tools orweapons they needed. Such must have been the condition of thegroup of villages called Rome about 1000 194 History of Europe 297. Rome seized by Etruscans (about ). The Etrus-can invasion which the Latin tribes feared finally took as early as 750 one of the Etruscan princes crossedthe Tiber, drove out the last of the line of Latin chieftains, andtook possession of the stronghold on the Palatine. From thisplace as his castle and palace he gained control of the villages onthe hills above the Tiber, which then gradually merged into the. Fig. 54. The Tiber and its Island at Rome The Tiber is not a large river, but when swollen by the spring freshets itstill sometimes floods a large portion of Rome, doing serious damage. Thehouses which we see on the island are some of them old, but not as old asthe ancient Rome we are to study. The bridges, however, are very one on the right of the island was built of massive stone masonry in62 It has been standing for over two thousand years. Many greatRomans, like Julius Csesar, whose names are familiar to us, must often havecrossed this bridge city of Rome. These Etruscan kings soon extended their powerover the Latin tribes of the plain of Latium. The town of AlbaLonga, which once led the Latins, disappeared. Thus Rome be-came a city-kingdom under an Etruscan king, like the otherEtruscan cities which stretched from Capua far north to theharbor of Genoa (see map, p. 192). Although Rome
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