2. Warm-up Question
If you were founding a new city,
what natural features would
influence your choice of a building
site?
How about
as far away
from Mr.
Landis?
3. Objectives
1. Compare and contrast the geography of
Greece and Rome
2. Recognize the importance that geography
played in the founding of Rome
4. I. Main Idea
* Geography played an
important role in the rise of
Roman civilization.
13. II. Geographic Comparison
ITALY
1. Peninsula
2.Large Islands (Sicily,
Corsica)
3.Mountainous, but
passable.
4.Plains for farming
5. = capacity for a
larger population.
GREECE
1.Peninsula
2. Small islands
3. Very Mountainous
4. Rocky Soil
5. = smaller, isolated
civilizations.
14. III. The Aeneid
A. Who won the Trojan War?
B. Aeneas and followers flee Troy after loss
to the Mycenaeans.
C. Land at the mouth of the Tiber River
D. Aeneas becomes the “father” of Rome.
E. Is this fact or fiction?
15. The Legend of
Romulus and Remus
The kingdom of Alba Longa was
ruled by the wicked king, Amulius.
16. Legend of Romulus & Remus
Amulius fought his brother, Numitor,
and sent him into exile away from his
family. Amulius forced Numitor's
daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a
Vestal Virgin. Vestal Virgins were not
allowed to marry and have children.
19. Amulius ordered
his slave to
throw the two
twins into the
River Tiber. But
the slave left the
twins in their
cradle to give
them a chance.
They floated
down the river.
21. A shepherd called Faustulus saw the wolf with the
baby boys. He took them home to his wife. They
called the boys Romulus and Remus.
When they grew up the boys became shepherds
like Faustulus. One day they had a fight with
another group of shepherds. Remus was arrested
and sent to Numitor as a prisoner because it was
his shepherds he had been fighting. When Numitor
heard the story he realised that Remus was his
grandson! He told Romulus and Remus what had
happened to him and their mother.
22. Romulus and Remus attacked
their Great Uncle Amulius and killed him.
23. Romulus and Remus went to live with their
grandfather in Alba Longa, but they got bored
and missed the countryside where they grew up.
They decided to move back to the banks of the
River Tiber where Faustulus had found them
and build their own city. But the twins argued
over where the city should be built. Romulus
wanted to build it on the Palatine Hill and Remus
wanted to build it on the Capitoline Hill. In the
end they built two cities!
24. The arguing didn't
stop. Remus
teased his brother
about the height
of his city walls,
saying they were
too low. The
brothers had a
fight and
Romulus killed
Remus.
26. IV. Romulus & Remus Recap
A. Twin Brothers raised by a wolf.
B. Romulus fights Remus
C. Romulus becomes the first King of
Rome 753 B.C.E.
Fact or fiction??
27. V. Historians View
A. People settle in Latium around 1,000
B.C.E.
B. Between 800 and 700 B.C.E. people
band together here for protection.
C. This community becomes Rome.
