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rome was founded because the twin sons of mars romulus and remus who are the gods of war founded the city. romulus killed remus and became ruler and named the city after him
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last king got overthrown, rome becomes ruled by elected people called senators
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hannibal leads carthage army in his famous crossing of the alps to attack rome, this is part of the second punic war
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spartacus the gladiator leads slaves to an uprising
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julius caesar becomes romes first dictator, he defeats pompey in a civil war to become supreme ruler of rome. this signals end of rome republic
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he got assasinated after a year by marcus brutus who hoped to bring back republic but civil war breaks out instead lol beta
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roman empire begins as caesar augustus becomes first roman emperor
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alot of rome burns and its said emperor nero watched city burn while playing lyre
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the colosseum is built it can have 50,000 spectators
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the hadrian wall is built to keep out barbarians
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constantine becomes emperor he became christian and made rome a christian empire
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theosodius declares christianity to be the only religeon
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rome splits into two empires
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visigoths sack rome after 800 years of not falling to an enemy
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this is the end of the western roman empire and fall of ancient rome as the last roman emperor romulus augustus falls to german goth odoacer wwhich signals the dark ages in europe
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byzantine empire falls to ottoman empire lmao beta