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Roman Empire
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Laws were written down in the Latin alphabet to regulate relations between people, property and commerce.
The legal work of the Romans is one of their most important cultural legacies for humanity, and their principles were incorporated into the laws of many countries.
Rome origins
It was founded by the twin brothers, Romulus and Remus, who were breastfed by a wolf and then raised by a shepherd couple.
Roma was born of different settlements conformed by three tribes: the Latins, the Sabines and the Etruscans. Roma’s strategic commercial location converted it in a city called “Roma Cuadrata” who was governed by a King (monarchy). The king was elected by the senate.
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Roman Empire
The origin of the Roman Empire dates back to 29 B.C. under the rule of Octavian and ends in 476 A.D. under the rule of Romulus Augustulus.
Fall of Roman Empire
The Roman Emperor Diocletian observed several problems in which the Roman Empire was immersed; according to those problems he reorganizes the Empire and creates the tetrarchy, the government of four. This government manages to give a stability to Rome that it had not had for years and allows the survival of the Empire.
Rome
At its height the Roman Empire (509B.C-1453 A.D) was the biggest empire of the Occidental and Middle East of Europe. They were located from the Iberian Peninsula to the Euphrates and from Great Britain to the Sahara Desert.
Latin Republic
Roma became a Latin republic that was governed by two consuls elected by the senate. The only people allowed to be consuls were the Patricians (upper class). The two consuls were governed by each other, and their mandate lasted only one year. At the end of their government, the consuls had to report to the Senate on their functions.
Expansion of Rome
In the III century b.C. Rome started to invade/conquer to all the towns of the Italian peninsula: The Etruscans (north), Greece (south) because they had important colonies. With this conquest Rome had the control of all Italy.
A fought with Carthage gave Rome big territories: Iberia (currently Spain, Portugal and Silice).
Roma defeated Macedonia and took possession of the Balkans area. This gave Rome the control over the Occidental Mediterranean.
The Roman Empire, its expansion in the Mediterranean, its slave and institutional features and further influence.
