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Rome began as a collection of primitive huts on the banks of the
Tiber, some considerable time before Romulus founded the great
city. Ruled by kings for the first two and a half centuries, the
Romans abolished the monarchy and created for their little city
state a form of government that was successfully adapted to control
an Empire. The Romans learned how to weld together a larger state
by integrating other city states and tribes, offering them the
benefits and privileges of Roman citizenship in return for services
and manpower in the army and government. Roman society was based on
wealth, and extreme snobbery permeated every level of the social
hierarchy. Upward mobility was rare during the Republic, and equal
rights were out of the question. At the bottom of the heap were the
slaves, with no rights at all. Although little remains of Roman
architecture from this period, the famously straight Roman roads
began during the Republic, fanning out from the capital towards all
parts of Italy. Patricia Southern charts the rise of Rome from its
humble origins to its dominance of the western world, describing
the personalities who helped to shape it, such as rebel gladiator
Spartacus, Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader who invaded Italy,
Caesar and Pompey, and finally Octavian, Cleopatra and Mark Antony.
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