ROME-

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century B.C. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and it became one of the biggest empires in the ancient world. In its many centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy empire to an oligarchic republic empire to an increasingly autocratic empire. Roman civilization is often grouped into a classical antiquity with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to all the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, @technology, @religion, and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today. :)