By the fourth century BC, the story was accepted by Romans who were proud of their warrior founder The name Romulus was probably invented to fit the name of the city he was said to have founded on the Palatine Hill before killing his twin.Ģ. This 1,000-year-and-more history is complex and fascinating, here are just 100 facts that help illuminate it.
The history of Rome is long and complex: a village grew into the Eternal City that’s still a wonder today a monarchy became a republic and then an empire Italy was conquered before Europe, parts of Africa and the Near and Middle East were incorporated into an empire that had around a quarter of the world’s population under its governance.
Neither did the greatest power of the ancient world fall in one swift cataclysm as some past historians believed. Rome wasn’t built in a day, as the cliché reminds us.
