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| | Notes on Rome |
 | | Rome was the great intermediary - the bridge over which passed the rich contributions of the ancient Near East and especially Greece, to form the basis of modern Western civilization. |
 | | Rome To 509 B.C. The history of Rome extends from 753 B.C., the traditional date for the founding of the city by Romulus, Rome's legendary first king, to A.D. 476 when another Romulus, Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman emperor in the West, was deposed. |
 | | Rome and its Italian allies lost 200,000 men in disastrous naval engagements before Carthage sued for peace in 241 B.C. Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica were annexed as the first provinces of Rome's overseas empire, governed and taxed in contrast to Rome's allies in Italy - by Roman officials called proconsuls. |
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