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753 BCE
FOUNDATION OF ROMA
Period of the monarchy, with legendary Latin, Sabino and Etruscan kings: Rómulo, Numa Pompilio, Tulio Hostilio, Anco Marcio, Tarquino Prisco, Servius Tulio and Tarquino the Proud. -
Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE
Monarchy
The power of the monarch may vary from purely symbolic (crowned republic), To partial and restricted (constitutional monarchy), To completely autocratic (absolute monarchy). In most cases the monarch's position is inherited and lasts until death or abdication. In contrast, elective monarchies require the monarch to be elected. Both types have further variations as there are widely divergent structures and traditions defining monarchy. -
509 BCE
Beginning of the Republic.
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Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
Republic
Is a form of government in which the country is considered a “public matter”, not the private concern or property of the rulers. The primary positions of power within a republic are not inherited, but are attained through democracy, oligarchy or autocracy. It is a form of government under which the head of state is not a monarch. In American English, the definition of a republic refers specifically to a form of government in which elected individuals represent the citizen body. -
Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE
Rome seizes the entire Italian peninsula after defeating Volscians, Samnites, Etruscans, Gauls and Greeks.
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494 BCE
Rebellion of the plebeians who retire to Mount Aventino to demand equal rights with the patricians.
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450 BCE
Recognition of civil equality with the elaboration of a written code of laws, the Law of the XII Tables.
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300 BCE
Recognition of the equality of political and religious rights between patricians and commoners. (Free access to the Senate, the magistrates and priestly colleges).
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264 BCE
Punic wars between Rome and Carthage. After these Rome dominates all the central and western Mediterranean (Hispania).
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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Empire
An empire is a sovereign state functioning as an aggregate of nations or people that are ruled over by an emperor or another kind of monarch. The territory and population of an empire is commonly of greater extent than the one of a kingdom. An empire can be made solely of contiguous territories, such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Russian Empire, or of territories far remote from the homeland, such as a colonial empire.