ITALY LAYERS OF HISTORY

THREE LAYERS GREEK ROMAN MODERN

GREEK LAYER: BCE WE WILL BE HERE

 Greeks needed farmland (grain) and timber (ships) for survival.  Southern Italy and Sicily had both!  Needed harbors to export resources. They settled as far north as there were harbors (Cumae) GREEK COLONIZATION

GREEK SITES WE WILL SEE CUMAEPAESTUM

 Daedalus myth (Cumae)  Neopolis (Naples)  Agora: Greek Marketplace (Pompeii)  Greek gods: Hera, Apollo (Paestum) GREEK INFO

ROMAN LAYER: 850 BCE – 476 CE WE WILL BE HERE PLEASE NOTE: IN 850 BCE, WHEN THE GREEKS WERE COLONIZING, ROME WAS A TINY CITY STATE. ROME 850 BCE

 Rome needed harbors to expand.  Natural harbors are in the South held by the Greeks, remember?  By a series of wars including fighting the Greeks (Pyrrhic Wars), Rome controls the Italian peninsula 275 CE  By having harbors, Rome is now in direct competition with Carthage, the largest maritime power in the Mediterranean  The collision of the two powers takes place in Sicily. ROMAN EXPANSION

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 Punic Wars with Carthage BCE  As a result of the Wars, Rome becomes the dominant power in the Mediterranean.  Roman territory now includes most of the Mediterranean – an overnight empire! ROMAN EXPANSION

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 The Punic Wars deeply affected Roman social and political structure. It led to many famous civil wars (Marius, Caesar, Antony)  The result was that the Roman Republic fell and one man took over (Augustus).  The good news in all this was that Rome enjoyed almost 200 years of peace and prosperity (Pax Romana) and huge expansion  The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius fell in this period. ROMAN EXPANSION

ROMAN SITES WE WILL SEE HERCULANEUM AQUA AUGUSTA ALEXANDER MOSAIC POMPEII VILLA JOVIS - CAPRI

 Roman gods  Roman Naval Headquarters  Roman aqueducts  Roman Emperors (Tiberius)  Roman Forum (marketplace)  Roman libraries ROMAN INFO

MODERN SITES WE WILL SEE National Library Cathedral of Naples Castel Nuovo Cathedral of Amalfi

NATURAL SITES WE WILL SEE

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NATURAL SITES WE WILL SEE AMALFI COAST

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