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The city was founded by Romulus and Remos
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Etruscan became king
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The last king of Rome was Tarquin the proud , he was driven from power in this date
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The Gavls , a Celtic people from the Po River valley , north of the Apennies , sacked river
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A religious man , who believed in the traditional Roman gods . He identified with the god Apollo , whom he claimed to have seen in a vision .
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Rome and Carthage went to war
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The First Punic war with Carthage begins
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Rome and Carthage fought three wars
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Hannibal won his great victory at Cannae
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at Zama near Carthage the Romans defeated Hannibal
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Brought empire to height of economic prosperity and wrote philosophy
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They took control of Rome and ruled for ten years as the Second Triumvirate.
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Conspirator kill Julius Cesar
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one of the greatest feats of Roman engineering and a model for the ages
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In the second Punic War , Hannibal invades Italy
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Diocletian , who will divide the Roman Empire , becomes emperor
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announce an end to the persecution of Christians .
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Western Roman Empire falls with the ouster of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus
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Rome becomes a republic
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the earliest settlers on the Italian peninsula arrived
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East and west split where the west lasted a 1,000 years longer