The Growth of Rome Ancient History
Apr 26, 2018· At first, Rome was just one, small citystate in an area of Latinspeaking people (called Latium), on the west side of Italy''s, as a monarchy (founded, according to legend, in 753 ), couldn''t even keep foreign powers from ruling it. It started gaining strength from about 510 (when the Romans threw out their last king) until the middle of the 3rd century