look up any word, like eight ball: The birth place of Western
Civilization.  Located about 50 miles from the Mediterranean Sea
in the center of the Italian peninsula on its west coast is
where Ancient Rome began as a small village. It grew to a larger
Kingdom quickly and then into the Roman Republic and then the
Roman Empire.  Ancient Rome began possible as early as the 10Th
century with the founding of the city by the legendary twin
brothers Romulus and Remus.  The Ancient Roman Empire was split
in two in the 3rd century by the Emperor Diocletian. This
created a western and eastern empire which was ruled from the
city of Rome. The Emperor controlling the Western Empire and the
co-emperor controlling the east. Constantine moved the seat of
the empire to Constantinople in 330 AD.  The end of the Western
Roman Empire in 476 AD saw the end of the cities power as Europe
fell into the Dark Ages.  The Eastern Roman empire continued
from its bas in Constantinople until 29 May 1453 The fall of
"Ancient Rome" took a t