Etruscan, Greeks, Latins

-       Indo-European tribes moved into the Italian peninsula and some settled along the Tiber River creating the city-state known as Rome

-       The etruscan people, from the east, had settled in the north of Italy and were also 

-       Each year the Senate elected two rules, consuls, who each served a term of one year

-       as in the Greek City-States, the romans would appoint a single dictator in times on war or conflict

 - mixed government of patricians and plebeians had many of the checks and balances that modern democracies have today