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- Latins, the Greeks, and the Etruscan's battled for control
- Latins original settlement, a cluster of wooden huts atop one of its seven hills, Palatine Hill
- Latins were considered first settlers of Rome
- Roman Republic Began
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- founded Rome
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- Romans didn't want to be ruled by a king again
- Tyrant took control
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- time associated with ancient Rome
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- group of ten officials wrote Roman's laws
- laws were carved on twelve tablets, or tables, and hung in the Forum.
- The Twelve Tables said that all free citizens had a right to the protection of the law.
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- Roman's took control of Italy
- Roman's power spread far beyond Italy
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- took control over Mediterranean Sea
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- second war
- Hannibal was behind the war and a brilliant military strategist who wanted to avenge Carthage’s earlier defeat