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625 BCE
The beginning of Rome
Rome was founded by many villages coming together. However, it is unclear whether the villages came together out of necessity or out of becoming a greater power. Estruian invasion makes it unclear what villages joined forces but we know today that it is very important that they did. -
625 BCE
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Period: 625 BCE to 510 BCE
Romes "Period of kings"
Led by six kings the Romans advanced significantly faster than all of their surrounding competition which allowed them to start gaining land. The equestrian empire was their closest and toughest rival at this time and they put up a good fight but were no match in the long run. Them defeating their closest rival allowed them to lead perfectly into there next period in Roman history, the Republic of Rome. -
510 BCE
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Period: 510 BCE to 31 BCE
The republican era of Rome
This is the era most commonly referred to when people talk about the Roman Empire. Featuring the beginning of Roman laws called the twelve tables that laid out the rules for the city and the areas around the city. This era is also where they stopped using kings to rule and switched to an oligarchy where the formation of the senate began and also a few of the wealthy ruled as well. -
264 BCE
First Pulic war picture
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Period: 264 BCE to 238 BCE
First Punic War
One of three wars that the Romans fought to gain more land in their constant conquest. The first one was rather uneventful but it served more as the beginning of a snowball into changing Rome into a much greater power, this would be the first war where Rome had to beef up there navy which took over 20 years to build to be able to compete with Carthage's. -
218 BCE
Second Punic war picture
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Period: 218 BCE to 200 BCE
2nd Punic War
This one like the first is not as pivotal but it provides much more of a base than the first one does. This one gets the Romans more land from the cities of Corsica and Sardinia. But during this time of war Hamilcar Barca made his son Hannibal swear a blood oath against war when he was just a boy building the snowball even farther. -
149 BCE
3rd Punic war picture
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Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
Third Punic War
The third Punic War is by far the most impactful because it means the collapse of Carthage. It was mainly influenced by Cato the senator who is key in pushing the idea that Carthage threatens Rome's supremacy. Cato is also remembered for crying out "Carthage must be destroyed". Also, Carthage withstood roman siege for 2 years before collapsing. -
60 BCE
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Period: 60 BCE to 44 BCE
Julius Caesar's reign as emperor
The "great" Julius Caesar becomes the dictator of Rome. Very important event because it's how Rome is portrayed in pop culture and it's also how the Roman Empire became stable for a while. Cesar conquered more land during his reign and expanded Roman borders to the Mediterranean. Ultimately he was assassinated in 44 BC and that would end his rule as emperor. -
44 BCE
Ceaser assassination
Ceaser was a great leader who was extremely loved by the people. That ultimately leads to jealousy and people become envious that he had so much power and that he was so liked, so they killed him for it. It was his senators who did it they saw and recognized the threat he posed to their power and they took advantage -
44 BCE
Rome is ruled by two kings
When Caesar was assassinated his heir Octavian took over. He relied alongside Mark Anthony for many years and Rome had gained even more land and one of those pieces of land was north Egypt. In the conquest in Egypt, Mark Anthony was killed and that led to Octavian taking full ownership of the Roman Empire and changing his name to Augustus. -
Period: 31 BCE to 476
Romes Imperial Age
This period of Rome was its most impactful and its last period. This is the period where the first Emporer ruled over the nation, previously it was a dictator who ruled and the rise of an Emporer allowed for more of a choice for the people. But most importantly was them splitting into 2 sides the west side and the east side. The era ended when Rome in Italy fell and much later when Constantinople fell. -
29 BCE
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286
Roman empire dividends into two
At this time, the Roman Empire stretched across three continents. Finally, the Romans realized that it would be smarter to split it up and make it manageable. They were united in everything, but they were split up to make governing the people easier. In the end, the West fell much faster than the East because of how undeveloped It was other than Rome. -
330
Byzantine empire picture
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Period: 330 to 1452
The Byzantine Empire
After the west split from the east the east defended and maintained there land much better than the west and survived much longer than they did as well. Much longer after the west fell the east was still considered a superpower in the word and still had the richest and strongest military. It took until 1453 for the east to finally fall to the ottoman empire and that finally finished off what was the roman empire. -
393
Reign of Honorius
Hornoruius was the Emporer of western Rome for some time, he claimed the throne at the age of 10 years old. During pretty much his entire reign he was constantly having to move the capital of the Roman Empire to try and hold off the barbarians. Honorius eventually died of Edema and left no heir to the empire. -
475
Romulus Augustus becomes the emperor of western Rome
His being crowed the Emporer doesn't hold nearly as much value as some of the other empowers. Firstly because he was only crowed it because his father was killed by the barbarians. Next, he was only a teen and only ended up serving a year before the barbarians made their way into Rome and the leader of them made him resign and give up his power. -
476
Western Rome falls
The barbarians and the goths finally took back the land that the Romans conquered from them. Odoacer was the leader of the barbarians and he forced the teenaged emperor to resign his position of power. This soon led to the fall of the city after it had been ransacked. -
541
Bubonic plague hits the east
In a pivotal moment in history where the leader of Rome was restoring it to its formal power a plague hits. Rome just happened to be ground 0 and it was the first place where the plague hit and it had devastating effects. The labor shortage was the big one and the people tried to take advantage and make and upcharge significantly more for there services. -
555
The east reaches its fullest power
Under the ruler Justinian, the East expanded its borders to the largest the empire would see since the West fell. He briefly reconquered Italy and the Mediterranean coast. This allowed eastern rome to reach its most powerful since the collapse of the west -
628
The Rome and Persian war ends
It started in 54 bc and ended in 628, a 600-year-long war spanning the creation of the East and West and the strongest version of Rome. It all started when Persia wanted financial backing in the war they were fighting, Rome rejected so the king at the time wanted to take it by force. The majority of the war was a stalemate and the borders never really moved throughout the history of the war. -
1453
The invention of the cannon and gunpowder
This invention allowed the Ottomans to take down eastern Rome. In the beginning, it was offered to the Roman emperor at the time Constantine the XI, but he turned it down because of how expensive it was and how long it would take to build. But on the other hand, the Ottomans used this very soon and implemented it into their army. -
1453
The fall of Eastern Rome
The East finally fell after many centuries of withstanding the trials of time, they were finally defeated by the Turks. They were able to use the advancements that the rest of the world had made to defeat the Roman superpower that had been lingering around the war after so many years. The most important was the invention of the cannon as it led to the walls of Constantinople being destroyed and they finally fell.