Today in West Civ class learned all about Rome and who settled there. The Etruscans came from the north central part of the peninsula. Metal works, artists, and architects. There were two myth foundations, and they were Virgil's Aeneid, plus the story of Remus and Romulus. The Greeks also settled in Rome, they has many colonies around the Mediterranean sea. Romans borrowed ideas from the Greeks, such as religious beliefs, alphabet, a lot of their art, military techniques, and weaponries. The Latin's were the first to settle on Rome, descendent of Indo-Europe's. They settled on the banks of the Tiber River, situated so trading ships but not war fleets could navigate as far as Rome, but no further. A commercial port, but not attack and built on seven hills.