1.+2000+BCE+to+450+BCE

=__**Founding of Rome**__= The story of Romulus and Remus the founding of Rome was April 21st 753 b.c.e. it was founded by twin brothers Romulus and Remus one day the brothers got in a fight and Romulus killed Remus and declared himself founder of Rome Rome was majorly influenced by its neighbors to the north the Etruscans

=__[|The Twelve Tables]__=

The twelve tables

Table I.
If a man is summoned to court he must go. If he does not go he will be taken by force If he runs away the summoner may take action. If the man is to old or is sick the summoner provide a team to go get him.

Table II
If a witness has failed to show up the summoner may summon him by loud calls before his house

Table III
A person in debt to someone needs to pay him back within thirty days of his court date or the person he owes can take him prisoner and must shackle him with no less than 15 pounds and give him at least one pound of meal daily.

Table IV
A badly deformed child shall be killed quickly If a father sells his son three times the son will be free of his father A man has the right to a will A child born ten months after their fathers death will get no inheritance

Table V
Women still must still be in guardianship even when they grow up If someones mad and has no guardian his money and power belong to his agnates or members of his fathers side of his family

Table VI
If someone fixes a house or remodels a trellis it shall always be that way no one can take it apart

Table VII
An owner of movable things must own it for a year to have complete ownership of it and with building or property he must own it for two years

[|Romulus's Death]
Romulus is said to have been murdered by the senators, because they didn't like hikillrds autocratic rule. The place where he was killed is going to become a tourist attraction. The professor Angelo Bottini, said that the underground area of black marble stone marks the place where he was originally killed and dismembered and was also covered with cement and had iron railings surrounding it in the 1950's.

Recent heavy rain damaged the cover and then the professor decided to remove it. Then a canopy was placed over the place he died, which was first discovered in the year of 1899. They put the canopy up so that they could work on the death site while the tourists watched. Like many other later roman rulers, "Romulus fell foul of the senate and was murdered ate the age of 53 in 717 B.C., the thirty eighth year of his reign." The historian Plutarch, says that the senators disliked his behaviour toward them and then plotted against his life.

Some people say that Romulus wasn't murdered, but was carried into heaven during a big storm and became the god Quirinus, "after whom the Quirinal Hill is named. Plutarch says that this story was made up by his murderers to cover up that they committed regicide. Some people also kept the secret that he had been torn to pieces. "Romulus was succeeded by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome." there was a memorial that was at the site of the murder and there was a Latin inscription that said "Whoever violates this place will be consecrated to the infernal gods."

=**__[|The last King of Rome and then Rome becomes a Republic]__**=

"Roman nobles drove Etruscan king, Tarquin, from power" in the year 509 B.C.E.. So since Rome didn't have a king, they then became a republic. "Power passed to Rome's aristocratic council of elders, the senate."

"Rome was on its way to becoming a great power," but there was an obstacle. In the process of freeing themselves from the Etruscans, they lost trading with the Etruscans and other Greek colonies in the south part of Italy. So all of the imports ended and Rome suffered and then there was an economic depression and there were also grain shortages.

Rome was challenged by other Latin neighbors for land that was taken while the Etruscans ruled Rome. "Rather than gripped by paranoiac fear of weakness, the Romans saw advantage in peace and cooperation." Rome joined an alliance in the year 493 with Latin neighbors as an equal. The alliance said that "business contracts between people of different states within the alliance were to be bound by law. The treaty also said that wars involving outsiders, alliance members have to share commanding armies and share the spoils of war.

There was also a conflict between Rome's aristocratic rulers and its commanders. Romes aristocrats liked to have wars, because wars gave them prestige and wars also helped to maintain powers over other Romans. There were horsemen and the cavalry was their main fighting unit, but the advancements in war denied the aristocrats their right to prestige. "The Greeks, Etruscans, and now the Romans were using heavily armed infantrymen" and the infantrymen were just commoners. So now common men were more desired in combat and that encouraged Athens into a democracy.