Lecture 1 Flashcards
1
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Early Bronze Age burials
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Inhumation
2
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Late Bronze Age burials
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Introduction of cremation in Po Valley
3
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Iron Age burials
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Cremation and biconical Urns
4
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Iron Age inhumation cultures?
A
Greek colonies and Adriatic cultures
5
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Iron Age language developments
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40 different languages
Huge variation
6
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Iron Age migration
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Greek and Phoenician (8th-7th c)
Celtic (6th-5th)
Oscan (5th)
7
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Who did the romans trace their ancestry to?
A
Romulus and Remus > Aeneas
The trojans
8
Q
Key feature of the Iron Age
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Cultural uniformity throughout Italy
9
Q
Influences of Etruscan culture on the Romans
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Dictators Kings holding fasces Priesthoods of haruspices and augurs Roman Kings Annual magistrates
10
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Principle source type for very early Roman society (pre-500 BC)
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Archaeology
