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Ancient Rome

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  1. was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC

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  2. Located along the Mediterranean Sea, it became one of the largest empires in history

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  3. In its centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire

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  4. It came to dominate Western Europe and the Mediterranean region through conquest and assimilation

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  5. The Roman empire went into decline in the 5th century AD. Plagued by internal instability and attacked by various migrating peoples, the western part of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, and Italy, broke up into independent kingdoms in the 5th ce

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