A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . abitants of Ancient Italy. — Until a late period inRoman history, the Apennines, aiid not the Alps, were thenorthern boundary of Italy. Most of the region between theAlps and the Apennines, on both sides of the Po, was inhab-ited by the Gauls, akin to the Celts of the same name northof the Alps. On the west of Gallia were the Ligurians, arough people of unknown extraction. People thought to beof the same race as the Ligurians dwelt in Sardinia and in 114 ROME Corsica, and in a part of Sicily. On the east of Gallia were
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . abitants of Ancient Italy. — Until a late period inRoman history, the Apennines, aiid not the Alps, were thenorthern boundary of Italy. Most of the region between theAlps and the Apennines, on both sides of the Po, was inhab-ited by the Gauls, akin to the Celts of the same name northof the Alps. On the west of Gallia were the Ligurians, arough people of unknown extraction. People thought to beof the same race as the Ligurians dwelt in Sardinia and in 114 ROME Corsica, and in a part of Sicily. On the east of Gallia werethe Venetians, who were probably of Illyrian descent. The Apennines branch off from the Alps in a southeasterlydirection until they near the Adriatic, when they turn to thesouth, and descend to the extreme point of the peninsula, thusforming the backbone of Italy. On the west, in the centralportion of the peninsula, are the hilly district calledby theancients Etruria (now Tuscany), and the plains of Latium andCampania. What is now termed the Campagna, the district. The Campagna and Aqueduct of Claudius about Rome, is a part of ancient Latium. The Etrurians dif-fered widely, both in appearance and in language, from theRomans. They were not improbably Aryans, but nothingmore is known of their descent. In the east, in what is nowCalabria, and in Apulia, there was another people, the lapy-gians, whose origin is not certain, but who were not so farremoved from the Greeks as from the Latins. The southernand southeastern portions of the peninsula were the seat ofthe Greek settlements, and the country was early designatedGreat Greece. Leaving out the Etrurians, lapygians, andGreeks, Italy, south of Gallia, was inhabited by nations alliedto one another, and more remotely akin to the Greeks. These INTRODUCTION 115 Italian nations were divided into an eastern and a westernstock. The Avestern stock, the Latins, whose home was inLatium, was much nearer of kin to the Greeks than was theeas
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