Roman History

1. - The origin of Rome: Romulus and Remus story.

2. - ROMAN MONARCHY: Etruscan kings
3.-The Republic.
The Roman Senate
Struggle between patricians and plebeians
Military expansion: control of the entire Italian
Peninsula
Punic Wars with Carthage
The Triumvirate. Crassus, Pompey and Caesar
The Civil war: Caesars invasion of Rome.
Caesar is murdered
Octavian defeated the combined forces of Cleopatra
and Marc Antony ( who committed suicide)
4. - The Roman Empire
Octavian became Caesar Augustus,
emperor
Augustus dynasty: Caligula, Nero

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5. - Decline and disintegration

Emperor Diocletian divided the empire and moved
his capital to Byzantium (in Anatolia, later
Constantinople)
Constantine became the first Christian emperor and
inaugurated the new capital of Constantinople
The eastern Roman Empirelater known as the
Byzantine Empirewould remain largely intact for
centuries to come. An entirely different story played
out in the west, where the empire was wracked by
internal conflict as well as threats from abroad
particularly from the Germanic tribes now
established within the empires frontiers