Roman Kingdom (753–509 BCE)

Roman Kingdom Regnum Romanum
753 BCE–509 BCE
Capital	Rome
Dominant mode of production	Slavery
Government	Monarchy
Succeeded by Roman Republic

The Roman Kingdom was the earliest stage of ancient Roman history and existed while Rome was still only a city-state within the Italian peninsula.

History

Rome was founded in the ninth century BCE as an Iron Age village and grew into a chieftain's fort in the eighth century BCE. Its first inhabitants were people who had escaped from debt slavery. Etruscan invaders conquered the area in the seventh century BCE and installed a dynasty of Etruscan kings that ruled until an aristocratic revolution in 510 BCE that established the Roman Republic.