The Origins of Rome
The Ancients
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The Origins of Rome's Roman Empire
There's good evidence really that Rome is a rapidly enlarging cosmopolitan city with people from different areas of central Italy coming to live there. Some of the best evidence is epigraphic evidence so we have a truscan epigraphy that appears in Rome from the the late seventh and the sixth century's BC. It's more difficult with other aspects of the material culture like pottery like burials because those features of Roman culture are actually near identical to the latins to the sabbines and in fact to the southern atrusskins as well.
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