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It was one of the institutions of the government of Ancient Rome. It was composed during most of the Republic of three hundred members drawn from the ancient magistrates.
The Senate was born as a consultative institution of the Roman Monarchy, formed exclusively by 30 patricians -
Acording to the traditional account, a group of aristocrats overthrow the last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, in response to the rape of the noblewoman Lucretia by the king's second son, Syextus Tarquinius; after revealing the rape to some noblemen, Lucretia commits suicide. -
It was primarily fought over control of Sicily, and resulted in Roman’s victory, making Sicily its first foreign province -
The Punic War was the war where the Carthaginian Empire and the Republic of Rome came into conflict, in that same war it was where Aemilius Paulus lost his life while Terence Varro fled with the remains of the defeated Roman army in Hispania, and the Punic's won the conflict. -
Was an informal political alliance among three prominent politicians in the late Roma republic -
The III Roman Civil War was the internal military conflict between the Roman Republic between the worshipers of Caesar, commanded by his adopted son, and the murderers of Caesar, commanded by Marcus Junius Brutus, the conflict took place between 42-43 B.C. -
Was a five-year alliance made between Mark Antony, Cesar, Octavius, and Marcus, Aemilius, Lepidus, after the power vacuum caused by the assassination of Julius Cesar -
Augustus was a Roman statesman and military leader who became the first emperor of the Roman Empire between 27 BC and his death in 14. He was the first ruler of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. -
He was a Roman politician and military man from the 1st century BC. C., member of the patricians Julius Caesars, who reached the highest magistrates of the Roman State and dominated the politics of the Republic after winning the civil war that pitted him against the most conservative sector of the Senate. -
The Third Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic known as the Servile Wars. -
Had devastating consequences for the city. Buried the city under a layer of pumice stones and ash. It also destroyed the nearby city of Herculaneum -
Scipio arrives to Hispania from Africa, and he used his Roman veterans to execute a series of audacious flanking maneuvers while his fickle Spanish allies held the enemy's main forces in place. -
After Romulus ruled for ten months, the barbarian general Odoacer defeated and killed Orestes and deposed Romulus. As Odoacer proclaimed no successor, Romulus is considered the last Western Roman emperor, and his deposition marked the end of the Western Roman Empire as a political entity.