Download The Seven Kings of Rome

And the three periods of Roman history…
 Monarchy – April 21st 753 BC – 509 BC
 Republic – 509 BC – 27 BC
 Empire – 27 BC – 476 AD
 Romulus
 Numa Pompilius
 Tullus Hostilius
 Ancus Marcius
 Tarquinius Priscus
 Servius Tullius
 Tarquinius Superbus
 Roman
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Romulus
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Ancus Marcius
Turn
Tarquinius Priscus
Serve
Servius Tullius
Them
Tarquinius Superbus
Roman
 Son of Mars and
Rhea Silvia
 Thrown in the
Tiber River with
his brother Remus
by his uncle
 Nursed by a lupa,
taken in by a
shepherd
 Wanted to found a city on the
Tiber
 Remus stood on the Aventine
hill and saw six vultures first
 Romulus stood on the Palatine
hill and saw twelve vultures
second
 A riot ensued, in which Remus
was killed
 Or Remus mocked Romulus by
jumping over his city walls and
Romulus killed him
 Rome was only men and none of their
neighbors would agree to marriage
 Invited the Sabines to a festival of
Neptune
 While they sat watching the spectacle,
Roman men kidnapped all the young
women
 Men attacked Rome to get their women
back
 Sabine women intervened saying they
didn’t want to become widows and
orphans on the same day
 Romans and Sabines made a treaty
 Romulus co-ruled with a Sabine named
Titus Tatius
 Romulus died mysteriously and became
the god Quirinus
 Sabine
 Established many
religious festivals and
ceremonies
 Added January and
February to the Roman
calendar
 Built the first Senate house
(Curia Hostilia)
 Defeated the Albans in war
 Horatii (Roman) and Curatii
(Alban) triplets fought
 Two Romans died, Curatii
were wounded
 Remaining Roman ran away
strategically and killed the
Curatii as they separated
while chasing him
 Killed by Jupiter with a
lightning bolt for performing
a sacrifice incorrectly
 Grandson of the second king Numa (Sabine)
 Built the first prison (Tullianum)
 Built the first bridge across the Tiber River (Pons
Sublicius)
 Built Rome’s
port at Ostia
 Etruscan (from the region of Etruria north of Rome)
 Gained the throne by fraud
 His wife, Tanaquil, claimed that an eagle had stolen his
hat, flown around, and placed it back on his head
 Started three of Rome’s greatest building projects
 Circus Maximus (the racetrack)
 Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
 Cloaca Maxima (the great sewer)
 Murdered by the sons of the previous king, Ancus
Marcius
 Son of a slave woman in the
palace who married
Tarquinius Priscus’ daughter
 A crown of blue flame floated
around his head – an omen
that he should be king
 Divided the Romans into
classes based on wealth
(patrician, equestrian,
plebeian)
 Built the first set of walls
completely around the city
(Servian walls)
 His daughter, Tullia, had
her sister and first
husband murdered
 Had her new husband,
Tarquinius Superbus,
throw her father down
the steps of the Curia
and murder him
 She then ordered her
charioteer to run over
her father’s body in the
street
 Finished the building
projects started by
Tarquinius Priscus (Circus
Maximus, Temple of
Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
and Cloaca Maxima)
 Earned the name
“Superbus” (“arrogant”) by
refusing the advice of the
Senate and executing
senators
 His son, Sextus
Tarquinius, mistreated
his cousin’s wife, Lucretia
 Lucretia, after telling
what happened to her,
killed herself
 The men she told, one of
which is named Lucius
Junius Brutus, overthrew
Tarquinius Superbus
 Established a new form
of government, the
Republic