Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Blog Post #1

BlogPost #1: (question #2 from the reading)
    Describe the two legends of the founding of Rome. Then explain how and when
    Rome was actually founded. Remember to include at least one image!











The two legends about how Rome began was first the traditional story where the two twin brothers named Romulus and Remus founded the city. As babies, the boys were abandoned near the Tiber River and then rescued by a wolf and raised a shepherd and after they decided to build a city in 753 B.C.The other reason that the historians  say that  the Latins lived in the are of Rome as early as 1000 B.C. They built huts on Rome's hills, tended herds and grew crops and that is the second idea of how Rome was found.


Historians knew little about the the first people living in Italy. They found evidence but the people from the north slipped through Italy's mountains passes between about 1500 B.C. and 1000 B.C. After because of the bad weather they settled in the hills and on the plains. 


How Rome was found that that the Etruscans ruled Rome for more than 100 years. Under the Etruscans, Rome became wealthy and powerful. However, the ruling family, called the Tarquins grew more and more cruel. Finally in 509 B.C. the Romans rebelled and that is how Rome was born. 







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