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1. www.history.com › topics › ancient-romeAncient Rome - Facts, Location, & Timeline | HISTORY

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   Oct 14, 2009 · Updated: September 22, 2023 | Original: October 14, 2009. Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at...

2. www.history.com › news › 8-mysterious-underground-cities8 Mysterious Underground Cities | HISTORY

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   • Burlington. The GPO exchange at the Central Government War Headquarters aka “Burlington.” In the event of a Cold War-era nuclear strike, the most important members of the British government would have retreated to a 35-acre underground complex located 100 feet beneath the village of Corsham.
   • Orvieto. Underground Below The City Of Orvieto, Italy. The Italian hilltop town of Orvieto is known for its white wines and picturesque architecture, but its most mysterious wonders lie underground.
   • Derinkuyu. Derinkuyu Underground City is an ancient multilevel underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevsehir Province, Turkey. The volcanic rock landscape of Turkey’s Cappadocia region is pockmarked with several different underground cities, but perhaps none is as vast or as impressive as Derinkuyu.
   • Petra. A classic view of El Deir, The Monastery in Petra. Famed for its cameo in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Petra is an ancient caravan city tucked away in the mountains of southern Jordan.

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   Where did ancient Rome come from?

   • Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands.

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   What was a city like in ancient Rome?

   • With this in mind, its 18-story interior was a self-contained metropolis that included ventilation shafts, wells, kitchens, schoolrooms, oil presses, a bathhouse, a winery and living space for some 20,000 people. When threatened by attack, each level of the city could be sealed off behind a collection of monolithic stone doors.

   8 Mysterious Underground Cities | HISTORY

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   When did the Roman ruins start?

   • The site began its life around the third century A.D. as part of a Roman quarry, but it was later expanded into a subterranean village after locals began using it as a hiding place during the wars and invasions of the Middle Ages. At its peak, it had enough room for 3,000 inhabitants and included its own chapels, stables, wells and bakeries.

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   How did Italian cities respond to a plague outbreak?

   • Starting in the 15th century, Henderson says, large Italian cities like Venice and Florence stayed in constant communication with smaller towns like Ferrara to track the spread of new plague outbreaks. The information was used to set threat levels and coordinate public health responses.

   How One 17th-Century Italian City Fended Off the Plague

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4. www.history.com › topics › ancient-romePantheon - Rome, Age & Dome | HISTORY

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   Jan 31, 2018 · The Pantheon is one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Rome. Completed circa 128 A.D., the structure features a rotunda with a massive domed ceiling.

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5. www.history.com › news › plague-italy-public-healthHow One 17th-Century Italian City Fended Off the Plague - HISTORY

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   Apr 3, 2020 · Over the next three centuries, plague outbreaks were a regular occurrence in Italy’s densely populated cities, prompting increasingly coordinated and sophisticated responses.

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6. www.history.com › this-day-in-history › vesuvius-eruptsMount Vesuvius erupts | August 24, 79 AD | HISTORY

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   Nov 24, 2009 · On August 24, after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities, buried...

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8. www.history.com › topics › ancient-romePunic Wars: Definition, Scipio & Carthage | HISTORY

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   Oct 29, 2009 · The three Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome took place over nearly a century, beginning in 264 B.C. and ending in Roman victory with the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C. By the time the ...

9. www.history.com › topics › ancient-romeGoths and Visigoths - Difference, Ostrogoths ... - HISTORY

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   May 14, 2018 · The Visigoths Sack Rome. Alaric I. Ostrogoths. Visigothic Code. Legacy of the Visigoths. Sources. The Goths were a nomadic Germanic people who fought against Roman rule in the late 300s and early...