Description:
From the time when its legendary founders, Romulus and Remus – fresh from sucking wolf milk in the forests of Central Italy – began to build a city on the Palatine Hill, the story of Rome is one of almost constant expansion.
Initially, the tiny city-state of Rome suffered the attentions of neighboring kingdoms, the kings of which were constantly giving unwelcome advice of how to run things and generally trying to conquer everything in sight. Wisely, therefore, the Romans killed all the nearby kings and set themselves up as a republic.
At first, the society of the infant republic was divided into two classes: the patricians, who had most of the money, did none of the work, lived in the biggest houses and spoke the best Latin (these qualities naturally making them the best choice for running the government), and the plebians, who had no money and did all the work (so, naturally, they could have no say in government). After a century or so, this state of affairs being somewhat irritating to the plebians, they marched out of Rome and threatened to start their own city. The patricians, horrified at the thought of having to do their own cooking, let them back in and gave them the vote.
The next few centuries were ones of unrelenting expansion as the Romans began conquering all the neighboring states. Once admitted to the fold of Roman rule, the new citizens were equipped with full voting rights. Alas, as the republic grew, the tedius business.
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YEAR:
1992
PUBLISHER:
Electronic Arts