ancient+rome

The city of Rome was founded by two brothers in 753 B.C. They were from a wealthy family but abandoned buy their uncle.

There were two groups the plebians and patricians they both were from Rome but had a different idea of how to run the city. In the later years the plebians became more powerful.

The city of Hanibal led and army of 30 000- 40 000 men, 6000 horses and elephents across the Alps to defeat the Romeans.

In 47 B.C he was named dictator of Rome. A short time later he was named dictator of life.

All the household members lived together and the father was the ruler of the house. Women had conciderable amout of power but they usually owned buisnesses.