A Brief History of Ancient Rome

When You rent an apartment in Rome, during Your stay in the Eternal City, You'll realize the greatness of Rome thanks to the many archaeological wonders that you can visit in the town.

Rome and its many centuries of history begin officially in 753 BC on the slopes of the Palatine hill, when the Etruscans and Greek settlers were located on neighboring areas. Tradition gives Romulus the paternity of the village, when he traced the perimeter with a plow.

From 509 BC to 27 BC the governing authority, elected year after year by the citizens, founded the foundation of civil law. Rome, initially a village, becomes in a few centuries the capital of an empire and, with the Punic wars, the undisputed ruler of the Mediterranean Sea.

The expansion of territory and of population require a redefinition of the "res publica": the state. The solutions suggested by several influential men who bring new institutional arrangements : "il principato". The "princeps" (from "primum caput" or first citizen) founded the empire into a unified and peaceful arrangement that lasts until the third century AD ( "Pax Romana"). During these centuries the Roman Empire reached its splendor.

By the third century AD, Rome gradually lose its central role in the vastness of his reign, until Diocletian divides the empire into two parts, restructuring the economy, finance, politics and bureaucracy. This new arrangement provides to Rome a new century of prosperity and the Christianity, officially approved in 313 AD by Constantine the Great with the edict of Milan, support the regime.

At that time there were in Rome about 4 million citizens (free men, slaves excluded) and in the Empire more than 50 million. In the fourth century, the imperial center of gravity shifts eastward, after successive invasions of barbarians in Italy, the Visigoths and Vandals, who come to plunder even the city of Rome.The sixth century saw the demise of the Roman Empire.


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