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Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic

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Roman tradition dates the expulsion of the kings and the establishment of annual consuls to 509 BCE. The date is a later reconstruction from consular lists of uncertain reliability, and modern historians treat the whole early republican chronology as approximate. It is included because the story the Romans told about themselves - that they were a republic that acquired an empire without meaning to - shaped how they governed one.

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  1. Story
  2. Roman tradition dates the expulsion of the kings and the establishment of annual consuls to 509 BCE. The date is a later reconstruction from consular lists of uncertain reliability, and modern historians treat the whole early republican chronology as approximate. It is included because the story the Romans told about themselves - that they were a republic that acquired an empire without meaning to - shaped how they governed one.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Rome
  5. Roman Law
  6. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
  7. Connections
  8. Rome
  9. Roman Law
  10. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
  11. The Roman Legion
  12. Roman Law
  13. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
  14. Ostia Antica
  15. Via Appia
  16. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
  17. Construction of the Via Appia begins
  18. The Punic Wars
  19. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
  20. Assassination of Julius Caesar
  21. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  22. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
  23. Dedication of Constantinople
  24. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
  25. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
  26. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
  27. The Pantheon, Rome
  28. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
  29. Rome
  30. Latin as an Administrative Language
  31. Justinian I
  32. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
  33. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
  34. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
  35. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
  36. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
  37. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
  38. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
  39. Evidence
  40. A Greek hostage in Rome writing to explain how Rome conquered the Mediterranean in fifty-three years, Polybius supplies the main narrative of the first two Punic Wars and the classic analysis of the Roman constitution as a mixed regime. He is a near-contemporary but a partisan of his Roman patrons, and his fleet and casualty numbers are not independently checkable.
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