1) The two legends are that there were brothers Romulus and Remus who were raised by a wolf. While Romulus was building a wall for Rome, Remus mocked him and got killed. Then, Romulus went on to become the first ruler of Rome. The second legend was that a Trojan hero named Aeneas sailed down the Tiber after the Trojan war and the local king gave him his daughter in marriage and he united the people.
2) They were the cruel ruling Etruscan family.
3) A republic is a state or country where the ruler is elected by the people and the citizens have the right to vote.
4) The Roman military were well-trained who were organized into legions. They were happy to fight.
5) 6,000-10,000 soldiers were in a legion.
6) The Roman Confederation was a system where people got citizenship under the Roman law.
7) A Roman dictator is a ruler with absolute control in an emergency situation. In an empire it isn't just for an emergency.
8) Cininnatus was a former consul who ran a farm. He was called to be dictated when Rome was surrounded by enemies. He surrounded the enemies overnight and stopped supplies from coming in.
9) There were the patricians and the plebians. The patricians were wealthy land-owning citizens. The plebians were the commoners, so basically everyone else.
10) The tree branches were the senate, assembly, and consul.
11) They revolted because the patricians didn't tell them the laws and the plebians couldn't run office. What happened was that the plebians got to run assembly. Also the laws were posted in the marketplace. They were posted on the twelve tables.
12) They were called the twelve tables.
13) Carthage is at the northern tip of Africa. Carthage and Rome faught in wars because they wanted land.
14) In the first Punic war the Carthagians and Romans both wanted control of Sicily. Rome built a navy from designs of a ship-wrecked Carthagian ship. In the