HIST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Timothy Well, Social Stratification, Plebs
29 Sep 2016
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Etruscans move to italian peninsula because they flee from the neyo assyrians. 750-510 bc (process of change) evolution of roman society and the formation of socio-political framework. Direct influence on the romans, maritime knowledge, most knowledge of cultures comes from. Port of rome, trade of salt through ostia, trading settlement for rome. Idea of ownership develops (stage) social stratification: patricians land holding, law, control trade, 16 clans, patriarch (oldest male)- vote to see who would be king (rex = king), equites, plebians clients to the patricians(watson) Formation of the latin league formed as protection league mutual defense league, piracy problem, rome establishes dominance of the league (signal that rome is going to be a problem, beginning of rome s expansion)
