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22 - Structural history of the Roman military.
Structural history of the Roman military. The structural history of the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome's armed forces, "the…
21 - Roman Kingdom, part 3.
Roman Kingdom, part 3. Servius Tullius. Priscus was succeeded by his son-in-law Servius Tullius, Rome's second king of Etruscan birth, and the son of a slave. Like his father-in-law, Servius fought…
20 - Roman Kingdom, part 2.
Roman Kingdom, part 2. Senate. According to legend, Romulus established the Senate after he founded Rome by personally selecting the most noble men (wealthy men with legitimate wives and children)…
19 - Roman Kingdom, part 1.
Roman Kingdom, part 1. The Roman Kingdom, also known as the Roman monarchy and the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history, when the city and its territory were ruled…
18 - Natale di Roma.
Natale di Roma. Natale di Roma (or 'Birthday of Rome') is an annual festival held in Rome on April 21 to celebrate the legendary founding of the city. According to legend, Romulus is said to have…
17 - Romulus and Remus.
Romulus and Remus. In the best known form of the legend, Romulus and Remus are the grandsons of Numitor, the king of Alba Longa. After Numitor is deposed by his brother Amulius and his daughter Rhea…
16 - Ancient tradition and founding myths.
Ancient tradition and founding myths. By the late Republic, the usual Roman origin myth held that their city was founded by a Latin named Romulus on the day of the Parilia Festival (21 April) in…
15 - Archaeological evidence.
Archaeological evidence. There is archaeological evidence of human occupation of the area of modern Rome from at least 5,000 years ago, but the dense layer of much younger debris obscures any…
14 - Founding of Rome.
Founding of Rome. The founding of Rome was a prehistoric event or process later greatly embellished by Roman historians and poets. Archaeological evidence indicates that Rome developed from the…
13 - Ancient Rome.
Ancient Rome. In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the…
12 - Kingdom of Italy.
Kingdom of Italy. Rome became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification when the rest of Italy was reunited under the Kingdom of Italy with a temporary capital at Florence. In 1861, Rome was…
11 - Modern history.
Modern history. Italian unification. In 1870, the Pope's holdings were left in an uncertain situation when Rome itself was annexed by the Piedmont-led forces which had united the rest of Italy,…
10 - Counter-Reformation.
Counter-Reformation. Pope Paul IV, elected in 1555, was a member of the anti-Spanish party in the Italian War of 1551–59, but his policy resulted in the Neapolitan troops of the viceroy again…
09 - Renaissance Rome.
Renaissance Rome. The latter half of the 15th century saw the seat of the Italian Renaissance move to Rome from Florence. The Papacy wanted to surpass the grandeur of other Italian cities. To this…
08 - Cola di Rienzo and the Pope's return to Rome.
Cola di Rienzo and the Pope's return to Rome. In spite of its decline and the absence of the Pope, Rome had not lost its spiritual prestige: in 1341 the famous poet Petrarca came to the city to be…
07 - Guelphs and Ghibellines.
Guelphs and Ghibellines. In 1204 the streets of Rome were again in flames when the struggle between Pope Innocent III's family and its rivals, the powerful Orsini family, led to riots in the city.…
06 - Medieval Rome.
Medieval Rome. Break with Constantinople and formation of the Papal States. In 727, Pope Gregory II refused to accept the decrees of Emperor Leo III, which promoted the Emperor's iconoclasm. Leo…
05 - Eastern Roman (Byzantine) restoration.
Roman Empire. Eastern Roman (Byzantine) restoration. In 480, the last claimant to the title of Western Roman emperor, Julius Nepos, was murdered and a Roman general of barbarian origin, Odoacer,…
04 - Roman Republic.
Roman Republic. The commonly held stories of the early part of the Republic (before roughly 300 BC, when Old Latin inscriptions and Greek histories about Rome provide more concrete evidence of…
03 - Etruscan dominance.
Etruscan dominance. After 650 BC, the Etruscans became dominant in Italy and expanded into north-central Italy. Roman tradition claimed that Rome had been under the control of seven kings from 753…
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