WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who were the first group of people to settle in Rome?
A
Latins
B
Spanish
C
French
D
Dutch
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest Roman settlers called themselves Latins and probably migrated from Central Asia. The Latins were farmers and shepherds who wandered into Italy across the Alps around 1000 BCE.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Latins were an ancient Italic people of the Latium region in central Italy (Latium Vetus, “Old Latium"), in the 1st millennium BC.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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