ITALIAN HISTORY - ROMOLO E REMO
Faustolo (around 790 years before Christ) saw a big she-wolf with two twins children sucking her milk. The legend says that once ROMOLO and REMO learned their story decided to go back to Albalonga. Here they punished the cruel Amulio and set free their grandfather. They went back to the Tiber banks where they had grown up. Here they founded a new town.
But
who would decide the name?
They decided to watch the flight of the birds: the first who had seen the
greatest number of birds would have given the name to the town.ROMOLO was
luckier, and he took a plough and marked out about the town's perimeter on
the Palatine Hill. He called it ROMA (Rome). It was APRIL 21 st,
753 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST.
Romolo, Remo and the Wolf, the very beginning of Rome and the Italian history
ROME EMPIRE POLITICAL SYSTEM
ROME EMPIRE ERA - THE SENATE
ROME HISTORY - THE EMPIRE ERA
ROME EMPIRE ORGANIZATION
During the Copper Age the Alban Hills area (south of the Tiber's mouth) was inhabited by an Italic agricultural and pastoral tribe called Latini. It was due to them, that Rome was founded towards the middle of the 8th century BC on one of the numerous hills (the Palatine) in the marshy depressions surrounding the river. The town and territory occupied by the Latini expanded gradually during the royal period (753-510 BC), under the seven kings of Rome: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquin Priscus, Servius Tullius and Tarquin the Proud). In this period the juridical and social organization of the new nation evolved, revealing clear influence from the nearby Etruscan civilization.Territorially, at the end of the 6th century BC, Roman Lazio extended over some 2000 sq km. It covered the lower Aniene Valley as far as its junction with the Tiber and from there to the sea, besides including the major part of the Alban Hills and the coast from the mouth of the Tiber to the promontory of Anzio.
