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The Roman Numerals are invented by Ancient Romans to help count, something that was needed for trading and communication in general.

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Rome is founded. They have not become the great empire yet, though.

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Shortly before 600 BC Rome gets conquered by lots of princes who lived across the Tiber River. At this time the history of Rom became a bit more clear, but its still very confusing. The first king of the Etruscan drained Rome's marshes.

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In 500 BC, Rome was a minor city/city state on the Italian Peninsula. Their monarchy is also overthrown. This is the beginning of the Republican period for Rome.

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The first Roman law code was invented, inscribed on a set of 12 bronze tablets, called the Law Of The Twelve Tables. The purpose of the 12 tablets were to help plebeians become antiquated with the law.

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At 200 BC, the Romans started using the Gladius as their main weapon. At the end of the second century, they realized that the Spatha was a more effective weapon and dropped the Gladius as their primary weapon.

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The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar declared himself the first emperor of Rome in 31 BC. (Rome was founded in 753 BC, but the empire began in 31 BC.)

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The Roman Empire is at its absolute prime, under their current emperor, Trajan. Upon his death, lots of territory that the empire conquered in Mesopotamia was lost very quickly. Their frontiers became more stable with this, too.

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The Roman Empire is destroyed, when their emperor is deposed by the German King Odoacer, but it also could be the death of Julius Nepos that made the empire fall. Or did it? Some think that the empire was never truly destroyed, and they continued on as the Byzantine empire.