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Rome kicked off in the muck of seven hills, where Romulus knifed his brother over a wall line and augurs read bird guts for building permits, forging a republic from Sabine scraps and Etruscan bricks. Tarquin kings got the boot for royal overreach, birthing a senate that squabbled like crows over carrion-consuls juggling legions against Carthaginian elephants at Cannae, while plebs rioted for grain and games. It was a machine oiled by slave sweat and road grit, from Appian Way stones pounded by hobnails to forums buzzing with Cicero's tongue-lashings, proving power wasn't born in purple but clawed from the clay. Then the cracks spidered: Caesar crossed the Rubicon with dice and daggers, civil wars shredding the map till Octavian rebranded as Augustus, papering over the stab wounds with peace altars and poet patronage. Emperors played god-king roulette-Nero torching fiddles, Caligula horse-whispering consuls-while borders bloated from Britain bogs to Parthian sands, Hadrian walling off the wilds like a bad neighbor fence. Colosseum crowds bayed for beast hunts and bread tosses, aqueducts gushing engineering smugness, till Vesuvius buried Pompeii's frescoes in a ash snapshot of mid-stride panic. By the end, the rot set in: Constantine swapped pagan eagles for crosses at Milvian Bridge, splitting the throne between scheming heirs while Goths sacked the gates in 410 like overdue bill collectors. Barbarian boots trampled the forums, Odoacer shipping the last boy-emperor off to retirement, leaving mosaics to crumble under Lombard hooves. This history's no laurel crown-it's a gladius jab through the empire's guts, showing how Rome's roar faded to whispers in monastery scrolls.

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