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How Did The Roman Americans Influence The Unification Of Italy

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In northern Italy, the culture of the Etruscan’s took hold around 800 BC, while the Greeks were settling in southern Italy from 700 to 600 BC, mostly in Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. Rome was created/founded by Romulus and Remus in the main part of Etruscan Italy in 735 BC. Rome expanded its territories into the becoming of the Roman Empire. They actually ended up naming the Italian peninsula “Italia”. Italis flourished under the Roman Empire, which actually ended in 476 AD with the death of their emperor Augustus. Later on the Italian Peninsula divided, but ended up reuniting in 1861.

The middle ages of Italy began with a sequence of invasions. The popes were granted central control over Italy and Papal States were born. Many Germanic tribes
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