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753 BCE
Romulus became the first king of Rome
Romulus killed his brother Remus for control of creating their own city on the river's bank -
509 BCE
Rome's era as a monarchy ended
Rome's seventh king was overthrown, collapsing it's government -
450 BCE
First Roman law
Roman forum displayed the Twelve Tables(first laws) -
300 BCE
Political power in the senat
included only members of patrician and wealthy plebeian families -
264 BCE
Romans gained Italian peninsula
Camilus became military leader -
240 BCE
First Roman literacy
Rome's culture grew with contact with advanced cultures such as the Greeks