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Ancient Rome Three Periods Roman Republic (509-31 BC) Roman Empire (31 BC - 300 AD) Late antiquity (ca. 300 AD - 600 AD) Origins of Rome The first civilized people to enter italy were the Etruscans around 1000 BC. Not much is known about them because their language remains undeciphered. They built a union of cities between 700 BC and 500 BC Other groups made in to Italian shores including the Phoenicians, who created a trading city called Carthage in Northern Africa …cont. By 700’s, the Greeks established colonies in Southern Italy. Latium was a region in Italy where the people all spoke Latin-one of these villages was called Rome. By 600 B.C., Rome had developed into a city-state model and was ruled by a chieftain or king known as a rex. He ruled with a council known as the senate(senex=“old man”) Cont. Romans developed their written language from the Greek, which the Etruscans introduced to them. The phalanx formation was adopted by the Romans from the Etruscan military. Roman society was also based on Etruscans where they recognized two classes: the patricians=upper class and the plebeians=small landowners and tenant farmers. Cont. After a century of Etruscan control of Rome, a group of patricians drove out the last ruler and proclaimed Rome an independent republic in 509 B.C., marking the beginning of a new era for Rome.