His brother, Numitor, was the King of Alba Longa. Amulius overthrew him and took the throne. Amulius forced Rhea Silvia, Numitor's daughter, to become a Vestal Virgin, so that she would never bear any sons that might overthrow him. However, she was raped or seduced by the god Mars, resulting in the birth of Romulus and Remus. Amulius buried Rhea Silvia alive and threw her sons into the river. Romulus and Remus went on to found Rome and overthrow Amulius, reinstating their grandfather Numitor as king of Alba Longa.

• A city of ancient Latium in central Italy southeast of Rome.
•  It was founded before 1100 B.C.
• The birthplace of Romulus and Remus.
  
  

• Member of the ruling family of Troy
• Father of Aeneas by Aphrodite
•  Zeus crippled him blinded

Appius Claudius Caecus

• Appius Claudius built a road, the Appian Way an aqueduct and a temple to Bellona.
• He led victories over the Samnites Sabines, and Etruscans.

• Tullus Hostilius was the 3rd of the 7 kings of Rome
• Tullus Hostilius ruled Rome from 673-642 B.C.
• Tullus defeated the Albans and punished Mettius Fufetius.
• He welcomed the Albans into Rome, thereby doubling the population of Rome.

• was a Gallic leader of the 4th-century BC
• attacked and sacked Rome.

• The Sabine king who ruled with Romulus, the founder of Rome after Rome raped the sabine Wemon

• the seventh and last legendary king of Rome, reigning 534-510 BC
• he repealed the recent reforms in the constitution, and attempted to set up a pure despotism

• The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built on.

• Leader of the Gauls defeated the Romans at the river Allia, and then captured Rome apart from the Capitol.
•  When the gold which the Gauls accepted as the ransom of Rome was being weighed and a Roman tribune complained of false weights, Brennus threw his sword into the scale.
•  With the words, ‘vae victis’, ‘woe to the conquered’.

• Roman politician, leader of the conspirators who assassinated Julius Caesar in order to restore the Roman republic.
• After Caesar's death, he and Gaius Cassius formed an army in Macedonia;
• Brutus committed suicide.

The Battle of Cannae

216 BC

• Major battle near the ancient village of Cannae, during the Second Punic War.
•  The Romans, with 80,000 men, met the 50,000 troops under Hannibal's command and were crushed by them.
• Roman losses exceeded 65,000 men, while Hannibal's troops lost only about 6,000.