Rome

Today we started Mr. Schick's slide show presentation on Rome. We learned that the Latins were the first people to settle in Rome. Latins were descendants of Indo-European people. There are two myths about how Rome started. One of them was very similar to the Odyssey and how Odysseus traveled for a long time, the other involved two twins raise by a she-wolf. These twins were Romulus and Remus. In the myth when they are older the twins fight over where the city should be placed. Romulus ends up winning and that is why it's called Rome. We also learned about the seventh and final king of Rome: Lucius Tarquinas Superbus. He was a tyrant in both meanings of the word and back in the time of the Romans, they didn't have the letter u so every word with the letter u in our language was replaced with a v. We didn't discuss that but I thought I would add it in my blog. This tyrant was also known as Tarquin the Proud and Tarquin the Arrogant.