21H.

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THE ANCIENT WORLD:
ROME

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Will Broadhead
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Stephen Brophy Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus

EMPIRE

AD 476 – Deposition of Romulus Augustulus

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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

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 Rome’s Early Kings
• 753-716 Romulus
• 716-673 Numa Pompilius
• 673-641 Tullus Hostilius
• 641-617 Ancus Marcius
• 617-578 Tarquinius Priscus
• 578-535 Servius Tullius
• 535-510 Tarquinius Superbus

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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

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‘Brutus’
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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus

EMPIRE

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 509 BC - Foundation of the Republic

EARLY REPUBLIC

264 BC – Start of First Punic War

MIDDLE REPUBLIC

133 BC – Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus

LATE REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus
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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus

EMPIRE

This image is in the public domain.

Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Augustus of Prima Porta 9
 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus

EMPIRE

AD 284 – Reforms of Diocletian

LATE EMPIRE
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Portrait bust of Diocletian The Tetrarchs in Porphyry

Istanbul Arch. Mus. Piazza San Marco, Venice 11
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 753 BC (April 21) - Foundation of Rome
REGAL PERIOD

509 BC – Birth of Republic

REPUBLIC

27 BC - Augustus

EMPIRE

AD 284 – Reforms of Diocletian

LATE EMPIRE
AD 476 – Deposition of Romulus Augustulus
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