Is it accurate to say that the Early Romans were a Tribe?

it´s more accurate to call them latins, from the Lazio region

>>1606235
This, they were the ancient ancestors of modern day latinos

>>1606201
Yes. The Italians before the Etruscans were tribal... sorta. But then there were Etruscans, not tribal. The Romans came after that. So they were never really a tribe, that came years and years before.

>>1606201
>Definition of tribe: a group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs.
By this sense of the word, yes they were a tribe at the earliest beginning. By the time of the monarchy however there already were sabine elements, so you have different languages and customs, then came the etruscans too. At that point, they were three tribes already (in fact, the word tribe comes from the name of their internal division).
Of course they amalgamated quite quick, by republican times they were only single ethnic group again.
If by tribe you mean were they savages, then no. Protovillanovans were sedentary agropastoralists already.

The histories describe them forming as a village full of all of the malcontents in central Italy.

Hence why they had to steal all those Sabine women.

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>>1606239
don´t forget turks

>>1606285
Proofs? Rome was founded by ancient robots?

>>1606310
lmao you have no idea

"He (Romulus) then bade proclaim the spectacle to the surrounding peoples, and his subjects prepared to celebrate it with all the resources within their knowledge and power, that they might cause the occasion to be noised abroad and eagerly expected. [8] Many people —for they were also eager to see the new city —gathered for the festival, especially those who lived nearest, the inhabitants of Caenina, Crustumium, and Antemnae. [9] The Sabines, [p. 37]too, came with all their people, including their4 children and wives. They were hospitably entertained in every house, and when they had looked at the site of the City, its walls, and its numerous buildings, they marvelled that Rome had so rapidly grown great. [10] When the time came for the show, and people's thoughts and eyes were busy with it, the preconcerted attack began. At a given signal the young Romans darted this way and that, to seize and carry off the maidens. [11] In most cases these were taken by the men in whose path they chanced to be. Some, of exceptional beauty, had been marked out for the chief senators, and were carried off to their houses by plebeians to whom the office had been entrusted."

truly the original Beta uprising

>>1606201
Initially there were 3 Roman tribes

>>1606201
Sort of, early Romans came from a mixture of italic tribes settling down and conquering locals that were more established like the Etruscans

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>>1606460
Yea the tape of the savings is so fucking odd. Didn't the women accept their position and then get in the way of the Sabine retaliation bybthrowing themselves inbetween the Roman and Sabine man?

Also was Tarquin Superbus right in raping that noble woman?

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>>1606460

>>1606537
lol yeah, thats why I love reading Livy, because you cant help but laugh at all the obvious bullshit


"Then the Sabine women, whose wrong had given rise to the war, with loosened hair and torn [p. 49]garments, their woman's timidity lost in a sense of1 their misfortune, dared to go amongst the flying missiles, and rushing in from the side, to part the hostile forces and disarm them of [2] their anger, beseeching their fathers on this side, on that their husbands, that fathers-in-law and sons-in-law should not stain themselves with impious bloodshed, nor pollute with parricide the suppliants' children, grandsons to one party and sons to the other. [3] “If you regret,” they continued, “the relationship that unites you, if you regret the marriage-tie, turn your anger against us; we are the cause of war, the cause of wounds, and even death to both our husbands and our parents. It will be better for us to perish than to live, lacking either of you, as widows or as orphans."

>>1606310
Not really robots so much as criminals and bastard children.

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>>1606537
>the tape of the savings

>>1606687

Livy was quite the story teller.

His tales of Hannibal were fucking gold.

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>>1606460
[5] Next, lest his big City should be empty, Romulus resorted to a plan for increasing the inhabitants which had long been employed by the founders of cities, who gather about them an obscure and lowly multitude and pretend that the earth has raised up sons to them. In the place which is now enclosed, between the two groves as you go up the hill,3 he opened a sanctuary. [6] Thither fled, from the surrounding peoples, a miscellaneous rabble, without distinction of bond or free, eager for new conditions; and these constituted the first advance in power towards that greatness at which Romulus aimed.

The capital of the ancient west's great republic and empire is supposed to have been founded on fratricide as a place for men who didn't belong elsewhere -- less like a tribe and more like a gang, if Livy is to be believed.

Though, that's likely an oversimplification; many of those who came probably weren't criminal at all, and were rather seeking land and status as members a new settlement.