Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . n this i^the Roman)side of the Alps. Boththe northern and southernsections of It-aly comprisedmany distinctterritorial di-visions, thenames of whichwill best belearned fromthe map. 3. Italy was inhabited, at the earliest period to which ouiknowledge carries us back, by four principal races, the Gauls, Etruscans, lapygians, and Italians proper; but the first three are of minor importance compared with the fourth, the Italians proper. 4. The Gauls
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . n this i^the Roman)side of the Alps. Boththe northern and southernsections of It-aly comprisedmany distinctterritorial di-visions, thenames of whichwill best belearned fromthe map. 3. Italy was inhabited, at the earliest period to which ouiknowledge carries us back, by four principal races, the Gauls, Etruscans, lapygians, and Italians proper; but the first three are of minor importance compared with the fourth, the Italians proper. 4. The Gauls inhabited the greater part of NorthernItaly (Gallia Cisalpina) ; they were a branch pij-gt three of the same race that inhabited Gaul to the •^=^ of the Alps (France), and hence were Aryans. TheEtruscans inhabited Etruria, a district between the Arnoand the Tiber. Their origin is involved in great obscurity,V)ut it is believed that this people belonged to the Aryanstock. Certain it is that, long before Rome appears as avillage on the Tiber, the Etruscans had developed a pe-culiar civilization : they were great builders, and skilled in. 132 HISTORY OF ROME. many of the arts ; they delighted in auguries, and had astrange and gloomy religion. In Apulia and the heel ofItaly dwelt the lapygians : this people seems to have beena primitive race, quite distinct from the Italians addition to these races, we should also notice theGreeks in Italy, for this people had early planted so manycolonies on the southern coast that they gave to that dis-trict the name of Magna Grcecia, or Great Greece. 5. The fourth of the races of Italy is the one with which we shall be mainly concerned in Roman his- Itahans. rni • • i 7^ ,• i • i tory. inis is the Italian race proper, whichoccupied almost the whole of Central Italy. It was origi-nally a pure Aryan stock, nearly related to the Hellenicrace, — a kinship which is strikingly attested by the agree-ment of Greek and Latin
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