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Ancient Rome: the city founded by Romulus

The city founded by Romulus in the 8thprivileges and lived lives of luxury. They
century BC is located on a permanentlyran the government but they had many
navigable river,the Tiber, not too far fromobligations too, like each day had to meet
the sea. The site where Rome is, is wellwith their clients, people of lower status
supplied with springs and healthy because ofwho depended on them for favors and who they
the hills. Rome was surrounded not only bycould ask favors in return. Aristocrats could
city walls but also by a pomerium, createdbe required to serve in the military or in a
when a furrow was solemnly ploughed round thegovernmental position at any moment. Roman
site  of  a  city.rich men, to stay popular with the people had
to spend a lot of money putting on festivals
Ancient Rome was divided in four regionsand games.Most romans lived in tiny
within the Pomerium, Suburana, Esquilina,apartments in huge buildings called insulae (
Collina and Palatina, the original basis ofislands ) that were three to six stories
the four urban tribes. The power to commandtall.
the roman state during the republican period
was called in latin Imperium and the chiefInsulae were not as confortable as apartments
magistrates of the roman republic were thetoday. Some insulae were poorly made and
two consuls. The consuls were the eponymousthreat of fire was constant. But many people
magistrates at Rome, that is, the Roman yearwere willing to pay the price just to be able
was named after the consuls holding officeto  live  in  Rome.
during that year. The literary tradition
describes the establishment of the twoMost of the work of running the roman empire
consuls as one of the major acts in thefell to slaves: some wealthy romans would
immediate expulsion of the last kings.have hundreds, or even thousands of slaves,
Consuls had the power to summon the romaneach  to  serve  a  certain specific purpose.
people to assemblies, to preside over the
elections  and  to  convene  the  senate.Romans could at times be kind to their
slaves. many were affectionate with their
In the first two and half centuries of itsslaves, and they often frred them. Freed
existence, the roman republic conquered firstslaves could become roman citizens. Still
latium,  then  all  of  Italy.freed slaves owed their former masters
loyalty and often became their ex masters
The romans annexed much foreign territory toclients.
their own state, but they also established a
system of alliances with all other states.TheDuring the imperial period the streets were
concept of the italian nation is a creationcrowded and noisy during the day and at night
of  the  romans.because to make life even more expensive, it
was difficult to cook in the tiny apartments,
All of modern Italy is inhabited by peopleso  people  often  ate  out  at  taverns.
speaking various languages coming from the
latin.Roman society was clearly divided intoDiscovering the history of ancient Rome
social classes. At the top were aristocraticallows us to understand how we live today and
Romans, called patricians. They had manywhy we have some insitutions.



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