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800 BCE
The begging
in 800 B.C the first Romans moved to Rome and settled down . Legend says it was started by 2 brothers born of the king and queen they were taken as babies and raised by a wolf. when they were around age 4 they were found and returned home by a villager. -
509 BCE
The Begging of an Republic
Around this time the Romans drove out the ruler and turned it into a republic they had the consuls who were like the president but it there was 2.Next on the social ladder is Patricians and the Senate they're same people but the Senate is just 300 people who help pass laws after you have the plebians who also made up the assembly and they helped pick the next counsels and assembly members and then there were the slaves -
264 BCE
The Start of the Punic War
the Carthage people ruled western Mediterranean Spain and South Africa the Romans wanted it but they could not win against their strong Navy after finding an old warship they study and rebuilt a better model for 20 years after their first finding the ended with a win -
237 BCE
The second Punic war
Hamilcar gained land in Spain after a little time passed he died but he made his son make a blood oath against Rome he soon crossed the river with around 100k men and 40 elephants they were winning for the first 15 years without capturing them after but the Romans attacked a different part of Carthage making them retreat. -
149 BCE
The Last Punic War
The Romans poured salt onto the ground which stunted the growth of all plants and killed the soil Carthage was destroyed and the rest were either killed or enslaved -
133 BCE
The sought for reform
2 brothers were looking to give the plebeians more rights they had began to gain followers and as they gain followers the government seen them as a threat and so they hired thugs to kill them off -
58 BCE
Julius Cesar
after being voted into the consul he began to go on battles while conquering more land as he became more powerful the Senate wanted him to step down but he had to strong of an army and he also killed off his competition so they had no choice -
44 BCE
The death of Jusius cesar
The senators did not like the way everything was going so they decided when he least expected it he was stabbed 22 times by the senators and even a close friend -
27 BCE
Ending of the Civil Wars
After Julius Cesar was killed the people broke out in a civil war after a few years of this it ended with Octavian ruling -
4 BCE
Jesus
he was born in 4 BC in Bethlehem when he was 30 he began to preach about God and performing miracles the Roman officials did not like the huge impact he had on the people so the officials paid a disciple to turn Jesus into the officials he was persecuted and died -
66
The zealots
They were some of the very first Christians and while under Rome rule they did not want to follow what they set in place for them to follow because it was going against what they were taught after a while they began rebelling they were successful at first but after a while the Romans wiped them out and destroyed Jerusalem while they were there -
79
The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
when Mt. Vesuvius erupted it coated Pompeii in volcanic ash which caused people to be buried under and it killed almost everyone that lived there -
312
the conversion
before this, they were killing off the Christian people a blaming them bu tone day the leader of this time got a dream from God and it said through God they would win the battle he was frightened to go into so the next day before the battle he decided to make everyone place a cross on their shields and they won and after that he made Rome official religion became Christianity -
476
The Fall of Rome
the Germans began to move further into the area of the Romans which caused them to have to fight them off the germans and the people they were having trouble with after a while they were taking over Rome wa sdown
