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Roman Citizens overthrew the last Etruscan king and constructed their own system of government and laws. (I decided to include this event even though it was outside the appointed time. I thought that it was very important to Rome's history) -
The Roman Republic extends citizenship to citizens of the empires that they have defeated. It helps grow their population quickly since they were defeating a lot of different empires. -
Rome and Carthage get into three major wars that finally end in a Roman victory. Rome fully destroys Carthage and changes the warfare that they have historically stuck to. All of Carthage is destroyed, and Carthage citizens are either killed or escape to nearby empires.
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The Plebeian Assembly was created to help solve social class issues in Rome, and they ended up doing nothing to help solve those issues. This Council that always included one common person never solved poverty or social class issues. This caused tensions to rise among commoners and the rich in Rome. -
Julius Caesar started to work against the Roman Republic since he thought it was better gone. He worked along with Pompey for a while until he turned against him and killed him. He did that since Pompey was his biggest competition for power in Rome. He was assassinated shortly after.
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Octavian and Mark Antony worked together for a long time to help destroy the Roman Republic. Antony looked at Julius Caesar's son to be the next ruler of Rome while Octavian thought that he should be since he was Julius Caesar's grand-nephew. Octavian ended up hunting Antony down and killing him, so he would have all the power. -
After killing Antony, Octavian appoints himself the leader since he is the only practical choice. He also takes the name of Augustus Caesar after his great-uncle to be more notable to the people. -
Jews started to become angry after a man named Jesus proclaimed himself to be the son of God. They did not believe him and ended up crucifying him. Jesus started Christianity which lived on and spread very quickly around the area. Jews were very angry and started having uprisings inside of the Roman Empire. -
The Huns, warriors of Central Asia, started to invade Rome which quickly weakened their forces. During this time, there were many other groups of barbarians who were trying to get inside of Rome. Rome was having a hard time defending itself from all of these explosive forces. -
The Roman Empire finally weakened to a point where there was no more of the Roman Empire. It was not truly gone until the year 500. Areas like Rome and Italy were now a part of smaller empires that were nearby. -
Rome went from being an overconfident empire to being nothing due to bad leadership and never fixing old issues. There was also a lot of avoidance in Rome. They didn't like being a monarchy, so they became a republic. The republic didn't work, so they became an empire. They finally fell after becoming an empire. Rome never fixed the unfairness of social classes even though that proved to be an issue throughout all of Roman history. Their avoidance of these issues led to the fall of Rome.