Rome
is an ancient city located on the western coast of Italy by the
Meditterranian Sea.(3:289)
The city of was founded, according to the legend, by Romulus in 753
BC. Remus and Romulus were two mythological sons of Mars, the god of war.
"T hrough military expansion and colonizations, and by granting citizenship
to conquered tribes, the city joined all of Italy south of the Po in the
100-year period before 268 BC." First, the Latin and other tribes were
joined, then the Etruscans (a civili zed people north of Rome) and the
Greek colonies in the south. "With a large army and several hundred
thousand in reserve, Rome defeated Carthage in the 3 Punic Wars, 264-241,
218-201, 149-146, (despite ...
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by Julius Ceaser, 56-49 BC), Britain (43
AD) and Dacia , NE of the Danube (117 AD)."(1:721)
" The original republican government, with democratic features added in
the fourth and fifth centuries BC, deteriorated under the pressures of
empire and class conflict (Gracchus brothers, social reformers, murdere d
133,121; slave revolts 135,73). After a series of civil wars (Marius vs.
Sulla 88-82, Caeser vs. Pompey 49-45, triumvirate vs. Caesar's assassins
44-43, Antony vs. Octavian 32-30), the empire came under the rule or a
defined monarch (first emperor, Agu stus, 27 BC-14 AD). Provincials
(nearly all granted citizenship by Caracalla,212 AD) came to dominate the
army and cival service. Traditional Roman law, systmatized and interpreted
by independant jurists, and local self-rule in provincial cities were su
pplanted by a vast tax-collecting bureaucracyin the 3d and 4th centuries.
The legal rights of women, children, and slaves were strenghtened."(1:721)
Roman innovations ...
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