Decline of Roman Republic / Rewrite
The Beginnings of the mighty Roman empire as we know it today was
actually quite humble. “The Roman heritage can be traced back to an early
civilization of settlers from the Indo-European immigrants who between 2000
B.C. and 1000 B.C. had began to settle around the Northern Italian
peninsula”(World History: The Human Experience). Of all the settlers the
Romans are said to have arose from a mysterious group called the Etruscans,
which ruled northern Italy around 900 B.C. to 500 B.C. The Etruscan society was
made up of upper class families who owned land, or were priests. “The other
class in the society was the slave laborers” (World History: The Human
Experience). During the Etruscan period of rule there soon came constant revolts
from the lower classes and later freeing themselves from the rule of there wealthy
overlords. Among the strongest of the Etruscans were the Latins, who settled in
the city of Rome in the central......
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