GROUP 5 QUESTION: THE LATINS AND OTHER PEOPLE OCCUPIED ITALY AND INFLUENCE THE ROMAN SOCIETY. HOW IS THIS EVIDENCE IN THE EARLY ROMAN MONARCHY? NAMES MATRIC NO. OLOYEDE TAIWO S. 198186 UGWUMADU WINIFRED 198199 FATUNDE JANET 198172 AKINLEYE BOLUWATIFE 197886 ADEWALE JELEEL O. 200950 IGBEDION DANIEL 198173 ODULATE MISTURA 197903 GBENRO JOLAOLUWA 197899 AKINPELU ESTHER 197887 AGWAMBA JOHNPAUL 198153 OMOKOWAYO OLABISI C. 198189 FALOKUN ESTHER O. 197897 YUSUF ASIAT O. 197912 IYIOLA ODUNAYO 198247 BELLO BABATUNDE 197892 AYOADE ENIOLA 198242 ADEJIMI OLUWASEUN 198201 FALANA GRACE O. 184164 AKINWANDE OLUWASEYI .S 198160 AMINU TAIWO TEMITOPE 198162
INTRODUCTION Rome’s first political model was a monarchical form of government from 753 BC until 509 BC. The most accepted date for the foundation of Rome is 753 BC. The first form of government in Rome was monarchical according to the archaeological findings and the legends. There were seven kings who rules Rome at the beginning of its history.753 B.C is the legendary date of the founding of Rome by Romulus. At this time the Greeks were just emerging out of their dark Ages. Romulus reigned from 753 to 715 BC. After Romulus died the next four kings were elected by the Romans, the sixth Servius Tullius, inherited the throne and the seventh Tarquinus Superbus was a userper, killing Servius Tullius to gain the throne. The second king was Numa Pompilius, he reigned from 725 to 673 BC. Numa Pompilius was a sabine who gave Rome its religious ceremonies, the third king Tullus Hostilius, who reigned from 673 BC to 642 BC was a war like king who had many battles against the neighbouring peoples of Rome. Ancus Marcius, who reigned from 640 BC to 616 BC, was the fourth king of Rome. He executed Roman territory by defeating the Latins in several battles. After Ancus, Rome was ruled by three Etruscan kings.
THE SOURCE AND STRUCTURE OF ROMAN SOCIETY Before the Rise of Rome, Italy was a patch work of different cultures. Eventually they were all subsumed into Roman culture, but the cultural uniformity of Roman Italy erased what had once been a vast array of different people cultures, languages and civilizations. All these cultures existed before the Roman conquest of the Italian peninsula and unfortunately we know little about any of them before they caught the attention of Greek and Roman historians. The early history of Rome was set against a background of cultural change, when the simple way of life of the peoples of central Italy were beginning to be affected by influence from the eastern Mediterranean. In central Italy there is a plan on the West Coast called Latium which takes its name from the Latin people who lived there in the first millennium BC. They had come down into Italy from the North, like other Italic peoples and had settled in small villages of thatched huts, sometime in the second millennium. In the eight century BC their rural way of life began to be effected by influences coming in from outside. Greek colonies were established in the plain of Campania, just South of Latium and they introduced a new way of life based on towns and trade. Within a century or so of their coming they had also brought such innovations as the alphabet and coinage to the Italian peoples amongst whom the level and traded. Meanwhile, to the North of the Latins another civilization arose that of the Etruscans. They developed an advanced material culture which like that of the Greeks owed a great deal to contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean and Near east. They too lived in towns and cities rather than in small villages and developed as sophisticated urban culture, they had close commercial
contacts with Greeks Carthaginians and other civilized peoples of the region. The Latins could not but help feel the influences radiating from North and South, and slowly they merged their farming villages into urban settlements. Many of them came under the political domination of Etrusian Lords. One such community affected by these changes was that of the Romans, they originally inhabited a cluster of villages on a group of hills in Northern Latium, at a well trodden crossing point of the river Tiber. The Romans were not in fact typical of the usual Latin communities,in that from an early date they seem to have been a mix of Latins and Sabines, a more pastoral people who lived in the hills east of Latium. Sometimes in the centuries after 700BC these farmers merged their villages together to form a city-state; and very soon their location at a strategic crossing point on the river Tiber, twelve miles or so from its mouth, attracted the attention of their powerful Etruscan neighbours to the North. Etruscan Lords came down and took control of the city probably shortly after 600 BC and gave the city a line of kings. These kings the Taiquinii (who according to legend were descended from the kings Corinth in Greece) embellished the city with walls a central forum (public square) are efficient drainage system, a wooden bridge across the Tiber, and temples the accoutrements, in fact, of a city store of the ancient Mediterranean. By the time of the later Targuin Kings, another Greek innovation was spreading through Italy – republicanlords in Rome’s case the move towards the expulsion of the kings was also probably something of an independence movement around 500 BC the Etruscan kings were expelled and in their place the patricians, the heads of the leading clans in Rome, choose consults from amongst their own number.
THE LATIN AND EARLY ROMAN MONARCHY The major influence of the Latins on early Roman monarchy was in the use of language. Latin was the language of the Romans from the earliest known period. Written under the first Roman emperor Augustus, Virgil emphasizes that Latin was a source of Roman unity and tradition. In Virgil’s epic Aeneid about the founding of Rome, the supreme deity Jupiter dictates that the refugee Trojans who have come to settle in Italy will use the language of the native Latin as a means of unification. “They will keep the speech (sermo) and mores of their fathers and I will make them all Latins with one mode of expression. Latin then became the original language of the Romans and remained the language of imperial administration, legislation and the military throughout the classical period, in the west became the lingua Franca and came to be used for even local administration of the cities including the law court.
GROUP 5
ReplyDeleteQUESTION: THE LATINS AND OTHER PEOPLE OCCUPIED ITALY AND INFLUENCE THE ROMAN SOCIETY.
HOW IS THIS EVIDENCE IN THE EARLY ROMAN MONARCHY?
NAMES MATRIC NO.
OLOYEDE TAIWO S. 198186
UGWUMADU WINIFRED 198199
FATUNDE JANET 198172
AKINLEYE BOLUWATIFE 197886
ADEWALE JELEEL O. 200950
IGBEDION DANIEL 198173
ODULATE MISTURA 197903
GBENRO JOLAOLUWA 197899
AKINPELU ESTHER 197887
AGWAMBA JOHNPAUL 198153
OMOKOWAYO OLABISI C. 198189
FALOKUN ESTHER O. 197897
YUSUF ASIAT O. 197912
IYIOLA ODUNAYO 198247
BELLO BABATUNDE 197892
AYOADE ENIOLA 198242
ADEJIMI OLUWASEUN 198201
FALANA GRACE O. 184164
AKINWANDE OLUWASEYI .S 198160
AMINU TAIWO TEMITOPE 198162
INTRODUCTION
ReplyDeleteRome’s first political model was a monarchical form of government from 753 BC until 509 BC. The most accepted date for the foundation of Rome is 753 BC. The first form of government in Rome was monarchical according to the archaeological findings and the legends.
There were seven kings who rules Rome at the beginning of its history.753 B.C is the legendary date of the founding of Rome by Romulus. At this time the Greeks were just emerging out of their dark Ages. Romulus reigned from 753 to 715 BC. After Romulus died the next four kings were elected by the Romans, the sixth Servius Tullius, inherited the throne and the seventh Tarquinus Superbus was a userper, killing Servius Tullius to gain the throne.
The second king was Numa Pompilius, he reigned from 725 to 673 BC. Numa Pompilius was a sabine who gave Rome its religious ceremonies, the third king Tullus Hostilius, who reigned from 673 BC to 642 BC was a war like king who had many battles against the neighbouring peoples of Rome. Ancus Marcius, who reigned from 640 BC to 616 BC, was the fourth king of Rome.
He executed Roman territory by defeating the Latins in several battles. After Ancus, Rome was ruled by three Etruscan kings.
THE SOURCE AND STRUCTURE OF ROMAN SOCIETY
Before the Rise of Rome, Italy was a patch work of different cultures. Eventually they were all subsumed into Roman culture, but the cultural uniformity of Roman Italy erased what had once been a vast array of different people cultures, languages and civilizations. All these cultures existed before the Roman conquest of the Italian peninsula and unfortunately we know little about any of them before they caught the attention of Greek and Roman historians.
The early history of Rome was set against a background of cultural change, when the simple way of life of the peoples of central Italy were beginning to be affected by influence from the eastern Mediterranean.
In central Italy there is a plan on the West Coast called Latium which takes its name from the Latin people who lived there in the first millennium BC. They had come down into Italy from the North, like other Italic peoples and had settled in small villages of thatched huts, sometime in the second millennium.
In the eight century BC their rural way of life began to be effected by influences coming in from outside. Greek colonies were established in the plain of Campania, just South of Latium and they introduced a new way of life based on towns and trade. Within a century or so of their coming they had also brought such innovations as the alphabet and coinage to the Italian peoples amongst whom the level and traded. Meanwhile, to the North of the Latins another civilization arose that of the Etruscans. They developed an advanced material culture which like that of the Greeks owed a great deal to contacts with the Eastern Mediterranean and Near east. They too lived in towns and cities rather than in small villages and developed as sophisticated urban culture, they had close commercial
contacts with Greeks Carthaginians and other civilized peoples of the region.
ReplyDeleteThe Latins could not but help feel the influences radiating from North and South, and slowly they merged their farming villages into urban settlements. Many of them came under the political domination of Etrusian Lords.
One such community affected by these changes was that of the Romans, they originally inhabited a cluster of villages on a group of hills in Northern Latium, at a well trodden crossing point of the river Tiber. The Romans were not in fact typical of the usual Latin communities,in that from an early date they seem to have been a mix of Latins and Sabines, a more pastoral people who lived in the hills east of Latium. Sometimes in the centuries after 700BC these farmers merged their villages together to form a city-state; and very soon their location at a strategic crossing point on the river Tiber, twelve miles or so from its mouth, attracted the attention of their powerful Etruscan neighbours to the North. Etruscan Lords came down and took control of the city probably shortly after 600 BC and gave the city a line of kings. These kings the Taiquinii (who according to legend were descended from the kings Corinth in Greece) embellished the city with walls a central forum (public square) are efficient drainage system, a wooden bridge across the Tiber, and temples the accoutrements, in fact, of a city store of the ancient Mediterranean.
By the time of the later Targuin Kings, another Greek innovation was spreading through Italy – republicanlords in Rome’s case the move towards the expulsion of the kings was also probably something of an independence movement around 500 BC the Etruscan kings were expelled and in their place the patricians, the heads of the leading clans in Rome, choose consults from amongst their own number.
THE LATIN AND EARLY ROMAN MONARCHY
The major influence of the Latins on early Roman monarchy was in the use of language. Latin was the language of the Romans from the earliest known period. Written under the first Roman emperor Augustus, Virgil emphasizes that Latin was a source of Roman unity and tradition. In Virgil’s epic Aeneid about the founding of Rome, the supreme deity Jupiter dictates that the refugee Trojans who have come to settle in Italy will use the language of the native Latin as a means of unification. “They will keep the speech (sermo) and mores of their fathers and I will make them all Latins with one mode of expression.
Latin then became the original language of the Romans and remained the language of imperial administration, legislation and the military throughout the classical period, in the west became the lingua Franca and came to be used for even local administration of the cities including the law court.