Roman Empire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
period of ancient Rome following the Republic
About Roman Empire
—Pliny the Elder As with many ancient civilizations, Rome began as a city-state, founded, according to tradition, in 753BC as an elective kingdom. Tradition has it that there were seven kings of Rome with Romulus, the founder, being the first and Tarquinius Superbus falling to a republican uprising led by Brutus, but modern scholars doubt many of those stories and even the Romans themselves acknowledged that the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BCE destroyed many sources on their early history. The Roman Republic was established in or around 509BC. Besides wars with other powers (notably Carthage), the Republican era was characterized by conflicts between the old aristocracy (patricians) and the common people (plebians). Some plebians rose to wealth and political prominence, from which the
Roman Empire Travel Guide Sections
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