Ancient Rome
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The Roman Kingdom ( Latin : REGNVM ROMANVM ) was the period of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a monarchical form of government of the city of Rome and its territories. Little is certain about the history of the kingdom, as nearly no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it were written during the Republic and Empire and are largely based on legend. However, the history of the Roman Kingdom began with the city's founding , traditionally dated to 753 BC with settlements around the Palatine Hill along the river Tiber in Central Italy , and ended with the overthrow of the kings and the establishment of the Republic in about 509 BC.
Roman Kingdom
The Roman Republic ( Latin : Res Publica Romana ) was the period of the ancient Roman civilization when the government operated as a republic .
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( Latin : Imperium Romanum ) was the post- Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization , characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe , Africa , and Asia . [ 5 ] The 500-year-old Roman Republic , which preceded it, had been destabilized through a series of civil wars .
Origins of Rome As legend has it, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars, the god of war. Left to drown in a basket on the Tiber by a king of nearby Alba Longa and rescued by a she-wolf, the twins lived to defeat that king and found their own city on the river's banks in 753 B.C.
