Founding of Rome
The Etruscans
Terms
Daily Life
Etruscans and Rome
100
Ordered by the gods to leave his people to the promised land.
Who is Aeneas?
100
The Etruscans settled in Etruria.
What is 800 B.C.?
100
People who can predict events.
What is soothsayers?
100
The kind of houses the rich lived in.
What is rectangular one-story homes?
100
Lucius Tarquinius became the first Etruscan ruler of Rome.
What is 1616 B.C.?
200
The twins sons of the Latin princess.
Who are Remus and Romulus?
200
Etruscans
What is "people of the sea?"
200
Signs of what is to happen.
What is omens?
200
The Etruscans believed it lasted longer and was more important than life.
What is Life After Death?
200
Gladiatorial Games
What is the games that were fought between two Gladiators?
300
The year of the settlement of Palatine had become a village.
What is 776 B.C.?
300
The Etruscans secret "weapon."
What is heavy leather shoes?
300
City, government
What is municipal?
300
An Etruscan flute.
What is a lyre?
300
The symbols the Romans borrowed from the Etruscans.
What is authority symbols?
400
The mouth of the west coast of Italy.
What is the Tiber River?
400
Provinces
What the Etruscans thought the universe was divided into?
400
A bundle of rods bound around an ax.
What is fasces?
400
The things the Etruscans lied to do in their free time.
What is wrestling, running, boxing, and horse racing?
400
The people who laid stones everywhere the streets intersected.
Who are Etruscan Priests?
500
The number of vultures that flew over Palatine.
What is 12?
500
Soothsayers
What is the group of people who read omens from sacrificed animals, sounds and direction of lightning and thunder and flights of birds?
500
Mundus
What is the meeting point for the worlds of the living and the dead?
500
The things the Etruscans did in their free time.
What is games, sports, dancing & music?
500
Capitoline
What is the place where the Etruscans built the first temple?
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