CIVILIZATION
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Before 1000 B.C.E
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Humans evolved there
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After 1000 B.C.E, but before 900 B.C.E
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When they invaded Italy in 800 B.C.E
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Detailed explanation-1: -The history of Latium is inseparable from the destiny of ancient Rome. The Latins (or Latini) were sprung from those Indo-European tribes that, during the 2nd millennium bc, came to settle in the Italian peninsula.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Latins were farmers and shepherds who wandered into Italy across the Alps around 1000 BCE. They settled on either side of the Tiber River in a region they called Latium.
Detailed explanation-3: -From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as Old Latium (in Latin Latium vetus), that is, the area between the river Tiber and the promontory of Mount Circeo 100 km (62 mi) southeast of Rome.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Latins were originally an Italic tribe in ancient central Italy from Latium. As Roman power and colonization spread Latin culture during the Roman Republic.
Detailed explanation-5: -The arrival of the first hominins was 850, 000 years ago at Monte Poggiolo. The presence of the Homo neanderthalensis has been demonstrated in archaeological findings near Rome and Verona dating to c. 50, 000 years ago (late Pleistocene).