. A history of Rome . ter of the districts about Rome in early times). How and Leigh,History of Rome, chaps, i, ii. Shuckburgh, History of Rome, chaps, ii, and Masom, Tutorial History of Rome, pp. 1-18. Dennis, TheCities and Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. i, introduction (the author probably exag-gerates the debt which the early civilization of Rome owed to the precedingculture of Etruria). Leland, Etrtt scan-Roman Remains. Topics for Class Reports. 1. Geographical conditions tending to make thehistory of Italy different from that of Greece : Freeman, Historical Geographyof Europe, v
. A history of Rome . ter of the districts about Rome in early times). How and Leigh,History of Rome, chaps, i, ii. Shuckburgh, History of Rome, chaps, ii, and Masom, Tutorial History of Rome, pp. 1-18. Dennis, TheCities and Cemeteries of Etruria, vol. i, introduction (the author probably exag-gerates the debt which the early civilization of Rome owed to the precedingculture of Etruria). Leland, Etrtt scan-Roman Remains. Topics for Class Reports. 1. Geographical conditions tending to make thehistory of Italy different from that of Greece : Freeman, Historical Geographyof Europe, vol. i (text), pp. 7-9. 2. Explain the historian Freemans statementthat the course of all history has been determined by the geological fact thatcertain hills by the Tiber were lower and nearer together than the other hillsof Latium. 3. While the Grecian peninsula is turned towards the east, theItalian is turned towards the west (Mommsen); show the influence of thisgeographical fact on the history of each land. - 5 if8. CHAPTER II ROME AS A KINGDOM I. THE BEGINNINGS OF ROME 4. Latium and the Latin League. At the opening of the historicperiod, Latium, the flat country, as the name probably signifies,lying south of the lower course of the Tiber, was dotted with stronglyfortified hill-towns or petty city-states, like those of early some cases at least a great part of the families forming one ofthese little hill-states lived in hamlets scattered over the territory ofthe city, in order that they might be near the fields they ploughedor the common pastures upon which they herded their flocks. Thewalled town on the hill served as a common refuge for the villagersin times of danger. It was also here that they held their marketsand religious festivals. According to tradition there were in allLatium in prehistoric times thirty of these hill-towns. These hadformed an alliance among themselves known as the Latin League. 5. Early Rome. Among these hill-towns was one named Rome,situ
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