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| Non Indo-European-speaking settlers of the Italian peninsula who dominated the region from the late Bronze Age until the rise of the Romans in the 6th century BCE |
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| The uppermost elite class of ancient Rome |
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| A great maritime empire that rivaled Rome; at its height, it stretched across the northern coast of Africa from modern-day Tunisia to the Strait of Gibraltar. Carthage fought against Rome in the Punic Wars that began in 264 BCE. The wars ended with the destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE. |
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| (106 – 43 BCE) The most famous Stoic philosopher and orator of Rome |
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| (63 BCE – 14 CE) the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar and first Emperor of the Roman Empire. |
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| (70-19 BCE) One of the most influential Roman authors, hs surviving works include the Ecogues and the roman epic poem, the Aeneid. |
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| Engineering system that brought water from mountains down to Roman cities. |
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| The region of the Roman Empire that is modern Belgium, Germany west of the Rhine, and France |
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| (204-270 CE) The neo-Platonist philosopher who taught that everything that exists proceeds from the divine and that the highest goal of life should be the mystic reunion of the soul with the divine, which can be achieved through contemplation and asceticism. |
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