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Description: Archaeologists actually believe that people known as the Latins founded Rome around 800 B.C. They came from a region of Italy called Latium and lived on Rome's seven steep hills, which provided protection of Rome from enemy's attack. The Tiber River, which flows through Rome, provided water for farming and a route for trade, which also allows Rome to develop into a wealthy city over time.
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The overthrow of the Roman monarchy, a political revolution because of the accumulating people's resentment and the rape of Lucretia in ancient Rome, took place around 509 BC and resulted in the expulsion of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and it gave rise to the establishment of the Roman Republic.
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Description: The Romans applied Roman Way as the values of the Republic began to conquer new lands and expand. During the second century B.C. Rome defeated the empire of Carthage.
Significance: The Roman soldiers had brought back great wealth from the conquered territory. They used the wealth to buy the farmlands and the small farmers couldn't compete with them. The gap between the rich and the poor widened. (Textbook) -
Description: In 88 B.C, war erupted between the patricians and plebeians broke out because of the growing gad of wealth. After years of wars, a general named Julius Caesar became the king. He started to try to help the poor. Significance: The civil war ended and the problem was solved. However, Caesar developed many powerful enemies.(Textbook)
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Description: Less than a year after gaining power a group of angered Senators stabbed Caesar to death on the floor of the Roman Senate. Significance: This caused a civil war that lasted several years.
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Description: In 27 B.C.m the Caesar's adopted son, Octavian was named the first empire of Rome. He then named himself as Augustus. Significance: Augusts ruled Roman Empire for more than 40 years, known as the Augustus Age.(PPT from you)
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Description: Constantine moved the capital to a strategic location in Greece in the East in Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. He also accepted Christianity.
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In 393, two years before his death, Theodosius I, divided the Roman Empire into two parts.
It was the separation of Rome and led to the devastation of Rome.(Norman, Jeremy. “The Roman Empire Splits Permanently into Eastern and Western Halves” The Roman Empire Splits Permanently into Eastern and Western Halves (393 CE) : HistoryofInformation.com, 29 Feb. 2018, www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1860.) -
Description: The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire . The Roman Empire lost the strengths. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.
Significance: It was the symbol of falling of Rome. (N/A“Fall of the Western Roman Empire.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire.
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The Byzantine Empire was a vast and powerful civilization with origins that can be traced to 330 A.D. The Byzantine Empire finally fell in 1453, after an Ottoman army stormed Constantinople during the reign of Constantine XI. It is the Destry of Rome. (N/A“Byzantine Empire.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2010, www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/byzantine-empire.)
