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753 BCE
Legend of Rome origin
The origin of the city's name is thought to be that of the reputed founder and first ruler, the legendary Romulus.[9] It is said that Romulus and his twin brother Remus, apparent sons of the god Mars and descendants of the Trojan hero Aeneas, were suckled by a she-wolf after being abandoned, then decided to build a city. The brothers argued, Romulus killed Remus, and then named the city Rome after himself.
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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Roman lenguage
The native language of the Romans was Latin, an Italic language the grammar of which relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. Its alphabet was based on the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn based on the Greek alphabet. Although surviving Latin literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, an artificial and highly stylized and polished literary language from the 1 b.C, the spoken language of the Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin. -
Period: 753 BCE to 476
Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. Roman architecture flourished in the Roman Republic and even more so under the Empire, when the great majority of surviving buildings were constructed.
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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Roman art
Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered in modern terms to be minor forms of Roman art, although this would not necessarily have been the case for contemporaries. Sculpture was perhaps considered as the highest form of art by Romans.
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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Roman religion
Religion in Ancient Rome includes the ancestral ethnic religion of the city of Rome that the Romans used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Roman rule, in so far as they became widely followed in Rome and Italy. The Romans thought of themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety in maintaining good relations with the gods.
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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Roman clothing
Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga, draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla, over a stola, a simple, long-sleeved, voluminous garment that hung to midstep.
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Period: 509 BCE to 27
The Republic
The Roman Republic consolidated its power in central Italy during the 5th century BC and in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC imposed itself as the dominant power of the Italian peninsula, subduing the other peoples of the region and confronting the Greek polys of the south. In the second half of the 3rd century BC she projected her power outside Italy, which led to a series of clashes with the other great powers of the Mediterranean, in which she defeated Carthage and Macedonia
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Period: 509 BCE to 27
Roman economy
During the Roman Republic, the Roman economy was largely agrarian, centered on the trading of commodities such as grain and wine. Financial markets were established through such trade, and financial institutions which extended credit for personal use and public infrastructure, were established primarily through inter-family wealth. In times of agricultural and cash shortfall, Roman officials and moneyers tended to respond by coining money.
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Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
The expansion and crisis of the republic
In the western Mediterranean, the Romans prevailed after the long conflict that in the Punic Wars (264 BC, 146 BC). The Romans occupied part of the Iberian peninsula in a province of Rome. They also occupied a large territory from the north of the Pyrenees to CentralEurope the Gauls. Greece and some territories of the Asian high and North Africa.
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Period: 235 to 284
The crisis of the 3rd century
The crisis of the 3rd century, also known as the anarchy of the third century, military anarchy or imperial crisis, refers to a historical period of the Roman Empire, of fifty years, ranging from the death of Emperor Alexander Severus, in the year 235, and Diocletian's ascension to the throne of the Empire in 284. This was a period of deep crisis, during which there was strong pressure from the peoples outside the Empire and a severe political, economic and social crisis within the Empire. -
Period: 376 to 382
The Dissolution of the Empire
During the period 376 – 382 A.D., the Gothic War severely weakened the Western Empire, even though most of the clashes against the barbarians were carried out by forces of the Eastern Empire. At the Battle of Adrianopolis, in 378 A.D., the Emperor of the East, Valente, was defeated by Fritigerno of the Goths, in a battle that many historians delimit as the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. However, the steady decline of Roman power and prestige had begun long before the Roman defeat -
451
Germanic sinks
The division of the Empire did not prevent the collapse, since the Roman emperors of the West were not able to curb the Huns, which invaded violently in the Roman territory.
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