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Rome

The region of Italy was invaded by two different peoples of the area. The first invasions came around the year of 2000 B.C. from the Indo-Europeans. The second bout of invasions came from the Etruscans shortly before 7th century B.C. The Etruscans controlled most of northern Italy and imposed their own government to the Roman populace. The Etruscans have very little known information that was covered on them in the ancient times and now. This is because their literary works were not translated or preserved. Most of the things we know about them are from their tomb inscriptions which were very minute. Some time after that, around 500 B.C. the Romans took their first step in controlling all of Italy. This process took a little over two-hundred years to accomplish.

The most common resource that was found in Italy is clay. Clay was used in making bricks and pottery, which both were used in their architectural structures. Marble and Tufa were also some important resources found in Italy. One of the greatest architectural monuments in Rome is the Pantheon. This temple is honorary of the ancient Roman gods. The Pantheon is and was enormous. It was also used as a religious temple. Another great architectur


Even after all of this ruckus, the plebians still weren’t satisfied. They still were concerned about the about the senators and magistrates having so much power. Eventually twelve laws were written on wooden tablets stating all the traditional laws of Rome. Everyone had to memorize these twelve laws. This was called the Law of the Twelve Tablets.

Before the Pyrrhic and Punic wars became a factor in the way the Romans lived their life, Rome was an independent nation by itself. I think that was a bad choice on Rome’s part because that isolated them with all of the Mediterranean in terms or trade and commerce. The Pyrrhic wars were basically a dispute between Rome and Tarentum and the battle of their harbors. Tarentum is made up of Greek colonies on the southern coast of Italy. They attacked Rome’s harbors and eventually approached the king Pyrrus of Epirus. He accepted this approachment and took side of Tarentum and with his twenty-five thousand soldiers and twenty elephants, defeated Rome. These actions backfired and the Roman senate refused to negotiate peace terms as long as Pyrrhus remained in Italy. The three Punic wars lasted one-hundred and eighteen years and they were battled by the Romans and the Carthaginians. Rome eventually conquered all of the Mediterranean Empire after competing against Hannibal in the Punic and Pyrrhic wars.

The Romans then were only located in Rome and some surrounding cities, but sooner or later they starting expanding into central Italy and southern Italy. The Romans went through many hardships while being taken over by the Gauls. But the Romans paid them one-thousand pounds of gold to leave the city of Rome. Th

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