When? The Beginning of Rome- Julius Caesar

600 BC: Etruscans start forming cities in Italy

282-272: Rome is at war with Pyrrhus

264-241: First Punic War (Carthage)

135 BC- 132 BC- Hannibal invades Italy

73 - 71 BC Slave uprising led by the gladiator called Spartacus

45 BC- Julius Caesar defeats Pompey to become the first dictator of Rome

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