NOTES LO-1

• The Romans loved the way the Greeks did things, and both imitated what the Greeks did and improved onto them (at keast in terms of military and government)
• Everyone feared the Romans for the most part
• The Latins settled in Italy, just west of the Greek mainland
• Italy had a great location for military invasion, farming, and spotting an enemy navy/army
• The Etruscans and the Greeks also settled Italy
• Italy was another male ran society- The Senate
• Patricians were the more wealthy and powerful Romans, the plebeians might have been doing well in business, but they weren't "conected"