Aeneas
- was the last surviving warrior of Troy
- leads his people from Troy through the Mediterranean to Carthage in North Africa
- Dido falls in love with Aeneas.
- He must leave to fufill the will of the Gods and they go to Italy
- Dido commites sucide
- The troagans fight the people Latins in Italy and win
- Greeks have control over most of Italy
- Troagans set up Alba Longa as their main city (the kings rule from here)
Romulus and Remus
- Romulus and Remus were raised by a she wolf
- they declair war on each other
- Romulus wins and founds Rome
- Rome becomes the new capitol
- Etruscan civilization was north of Rome and they rule it for several generations
- Tarquin VI rapes a roman nobles wife
- Lucius Junius Brutus leads romans against the Tarquin kings
Rome
- founding of roman republic 509 B.C.
- the lower class threatens to rebel
- the tribune of the plebs is the one seat created in the senate that is a lower class (he has the right of veto)
- this creates checks and balances
- Roman army takes the land in the rest of italy
- the army set up a governor, a betalian, and a tax colector for the conqered city
- the roman army recruites young men from the vilages (30 years of service and then givenland to retire)
- Epirus was ruled by Pyrrhus (greek king)
- Pyrrhus invades rome in 280 B.C. in southern italy and then up to rome
- He defeates the roman army but loses the war
- Pyrrhus loses to many men to claim the victory
- in 264 B.C. in Sardinia they tell rome that Carthage is attacking them
- Rome startes a war against Carthage has 3 punic wars
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