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Patricians overthrew the king of Rome and instated a Republic
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The Plebes and the Patricians struggle for power and rights.
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The Twelve Tables are the written laws that govern, as well as offer protection to, the people.
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Rome has strengthened it's military and made more room for it's population in the conquest of the Italian Peninsula.
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Platus was considered to be Rome's greatest playwright. His plays were typically comedies, and in their endings the bad guys always suffered and the good guys won.
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Hannibal of Carthage lead an army of elephants against the Roman soldiers and fought the battle that would be Rome's most significant defeat for hundreds of years.
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Terence was a more refined playwright, but also much less popular than Platus. That's probably why I don't have much else to say about him
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By 146 BC Rome had taken control of the entire northern Mediterranean perimeter.
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Tiberius Gracchus had many ideas about reforming the economy and redistributing farmland among the commoners to encourage more business to flourish.
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Gracchus was killed because he had ideals that the aristocracy considered threatening.
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Julius Caesar would become the dictator of Rome for ten years, and make many improvements during his rain.
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Lucretius was an epicurean philosopher who believed that religion was a bad influence and a source of wickedness in the world.
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A council of three was chosen to rule over Rome in the absence of one strong leader.
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Caesar led an army to great success during the Galic wars.
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Julius Caesar is assassinated by the aristocracy because they feared he had become too powerful.
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Octavian became the first emperor of Rome, marking the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire.
