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Roman Kingdom (753–509 BCE)

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Roman Kingdom
Regnum Romanum
753 BCE–509 BCE
CapitalRome
Dominant mode of productionSlavery
GovernmentMonarchy
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[edit | edit source]

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.[1] Its first inhabitants were people who had escaped from debt slavery.[2] 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.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Neil Faulkner (2013). A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals: 'Ancient Empires' (p. 41). [PDF] Pluto Press. ISBN 9781849648639 [LG]
  2. Ben Norton, Michael Hudson (2023-05-05). "Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world" Geopolitical Economy Report. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28.