Rome
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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 ....
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.... and Cleop atra, 30 BC). All the
Mediterranean civilized world up to the disputed Parthian border was now
Roman, and remained so for 500 years. " Less civilized regions were added
to the Empire: Gaul (conquered 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 brothe ....
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