. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. that ofshepherds and farmers. The leading representatives of 4 Notice carefully the large area covered by the Italian color on theaccompanying map (p. 2). The Italian race formed the best part of thematerial out of which the real Roman nation was formed. ROME AS A KINGDOM. this branch of the Italians were the Romans, of whosesocial and religious life and political arrangements weshall come to speak in subsequent chapters. Among the Umbro-Sabellian folk, the Samnites are ofspecial interest to the student of Roman history, f
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. that ofshepherds and farmers. The leading representatives of 4 Notice carefully the large area covered by the Italian color on theaccompanying map (p. 2). The Italian race formed the best part of thematerial out of which the real Roman nation was formed. ROME AS A KINGDOM. this branch of the Italians were the Romans, of whosesocial and religious life and political arrangements weshall come to speak in subsequent chapters. Among the Umbro-Sabellian folk, the Samnites are ofspecial interest to the student of Roman history, for thereason that they were one of the most formidable of theenemies of early Rome, and were conquered by the Romansonly after long and stubborn fighting. The Etruscans, a wealthy, cultured, and sea-faringpeople of uncertain race and origin, dwelt in Etruria,now called Tuscany after them. They here formed aleague of twelve cities, prominent among which wereVolsinii, Tarquinii, Veii, Caere, Clusium, and the rise of the Roman people they were the lead-. Wall-Painting of an Etruscan Banquet. (From an Etruscan tomb of the fifth century This cut illustrates, among otherthings, the state of art among the Etruscans at that early date. Banquetingscenes are favorite representations on Etruscan tombs, sarcophagi and funeralurns. The participators were represented in the height of social enjoymentto symbolize the bliss on which their spirits had entered. — Dennis, Citiesand Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. i. p. 445.) ing race in the peninsula. Numerous art remains, rock-cut tombs, fragments of walls, massive dikes to keep backthe sea, and long drainage tunnels piercing the sides of ITALY AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS. hills, show the advance in civilization that they had madeat a very remote date. Certain elements in their culture,as for instance the alphabet they used, lead us to believe
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