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According to legend, Rome was founded by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus.
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Greeks started a colonization drive, that included southern Italy.
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Rome had a strong, stable government which was able to take over Italy.
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Rome's first code of laws.
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It was the first of three clashes between Rome and the Samnite hill tribes and ended in a Roman victory that saw the Republic begin to expand into Campania.
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Officials called the Tribunes of the Plebs protected the Plebeians.
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A series of five good emperors created a period of peace and prosperity.
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It was fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic.
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A Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
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Second War between Carthage and the Roman Republic referred to as The Hannibalic War by the Romans.
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A Roman comic playwright, a translator and an adapter of the Greek New Comedy. He was more refined and elegant than Plautus and also less popular.
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The last war fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic.
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Romans battled with Carthage for the Mediterranean trade route.
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70,000 slaves revolted.
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A Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He had a major influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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A Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view.
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A Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry, which is about personal life rather than classical heroes.
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More than 2,000,000 enslaved aliens were transported to Italy.
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The most famous revolt, led by Spartacus, defeated several Roman armies.
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Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey ran the government.
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The Senate gave Augustus the title of "Imperator" or commander in chief.
