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Among the great ancient civilizations that defined the world in antiquity, none stands out so much to the modern mind as that of the Roman Empire. Vast and mighty, this empire encompassed nearly the entire Mediterranean, much of Europe, northern Africa and large parts of western Asia, all governed from the great city that was ancient Rome. Before the Roman Empire and its great leaders, however, came another phase of Roman history, and one that was just as important to the development and expansion of ancient Rome. This stage of Rome's long history was the Roman Republic.Emerging from the overthrow of Rome's early kings in or around 509 BCE, the Roman Republic began when Rome was little more than a powerful city-state within central Italy. As the nearly 500 years of history that the Roman Republic spanned passed, however, the city would emerge as the primary power in Italy, engage Carthage in the Punic Wars, take control of ancient Greece and ultimately become the dominating power of the Mediterranean basin. Meanwhile, Rome would also forge some of the most important political concepts in history, including the idea of the careful distribution of political power, through its republi

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Author

Ryan, Duncan

Publisher

Kindle

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Ancient History, Humanities