Rise
As many myths and legends say, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, who were twin sons of the god of war, Mars. Left to drown in a basket on the Tiber by a king of nearby Alba Longa and rescued by a she-wolf, the twins lived to defeat that king and found their own city on the river's banks in 753 B.C. After killing his brother, Romulus became the first king of Rome, which is named for him. A line of Sabine, Latin and Etruscan kings followed in a non-hereditary succession.
Fall
In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman Emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.
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