Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rome's Site and Rome's Legend
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The idea
Rome sat on defensible hills beside a Tiber ford where trade routes crossed between the Greek south and the Italian north. Its legend gave it Romulus and Remus, the wolf, fratricide, and April twenty-first, seven fifty-three B.C.E.
In practice
The anchor: a legend, and important for Rome's self-image of force.
Where people slip
Treat seven fifty-three as the traditional date, not a record.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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