From Celtic, Etruscan and Roman Hands: The Po River Valley and Modena (Mutina)

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 90, University of San Francisco, course: Roman History, language: English, abstract: In the early history of the Italian peninsula, as its territories were being settled, the

lands farmed, and animals domesticated, the population was relatively low and spread far

across its mountains, valleys and along the rivers. Despite the modest beginnings in the

era of pre-history, as settlements joined together and tribes grew and founded villages and

towns, the Italian peninsula became a more lively and interactive arena in the European

landscape. Not as historically active or significant until the first millennia BC, the area of

the Po River Valley, where the modern day city of Modena stands, became a hotbed for

culture clashes and military conflicts. Empire builders, traders, soldiers, farmers and

pastoralists all came through this wooded region of the Italian peninsula and through the

walls of what once was known as Mutina and today as Modena. The city of Modena in

the Po River Valley on the Italian Peninsula has been blessed with a rich history of

Etruscan settlement, Celtic influence, and Roman domination as it was a decisive

economic and military location for all three conquest-centered cultures that tread through

its boundaries. [...]