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Romulus started Rome in 753 BCE on the west coast of Italy
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Rome suffered a horrible defeat by the Carthaginians after being encircled and massacred even though Rome had 36,000 more men than Carthage
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Julius Caesar defeats Vercingetorix after besieging him and then using his cavalry to destroy Gaul's relief force
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This is when Augustus changes Rome from a republic to an empire
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This time was the span of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire who considered themselves Roman
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At this time Rome was on Empire ruled out of Rome
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At this time the Roman Empire was split in two and the west half was called the Western Roman Empire and it was ruled out of Rome
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At this time the Roman Empire was split in two and the east half was called Byzantine ruled out of Byzantium later called Constantinople
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The Western Roman Empire fell when the last emperor, Romulus Augustus, was killed by the Germanic king Odoacer.
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The Byzantine Empire ended when their capital, Constantinople, was sacked by the Ottoman Turks
