LO-1 City-State and Empire: The Roman Republic.
-the Indo-European settlers formed various tribal groups, among them the Latin people of central Italy
- some of the Latins settled by the Tiber river
-the Etruscans were non- Indo- European immigrants who arrived in Italy from somewhere to the east about the ninth century B.C.
-the romans also borrowed directly from the Greeks
- Under the influence of the Etruscans and the Greeks, the Romans acquired the skills that enabled them to build their unique political instructions
Patricians- "men with fathers"
Republic- the system of city-states government which decision-making people
Senate- was a family of three hundred patriarch families