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Tribes (Latin: tribus) were groupings of citizens in ancient Rome, originally based on location. Voters were eventually organized by tribes, with each Roman tribe having an equal vote in the Tribal Assembly .
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire .
Rome timeline; Roman Kingdom and Republic 753 BC According to legend, Romulus founds Rome. 753–509 BC: Rule of the seven Kings of Rome. 509 BC: Creation of the Republic. 390 BC The Gauls invade Rome. Rome sacked. 264–146 BC Punic Wars. 146–44 BC Social and Civil Wars. Emergence of Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesar. 44 BC
A Roman denarius of 63 BC: a voter casting a ballot. A tribus, or tribe, was a division of the Roman people for military, censorial, and voting purposes. When constituted in the comitia tributa, the tribes were the voting units of a legislative assembly of the Roman Republic. [1] [2]
The Western and Eastern Roman Empires by 476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD) – the two halves of the Roman Empire ended at different times, with the Western Roman Empire coming to an end in 476 AD (the end of Ancient Rome). The Eastern Roman Empire (referred to by historians as the Byzantine Empire) survived for nearly a thousand ...
While each tribe had each vote and voters were not ranked by wealth for voting purposes, the number of voters within each tribe was not the same. The newer tribes created in the third and fourth centuries likely had within them more voters than the older tribes closer to Rome.
19th-century painting of the Gallic leader Brennus looting Rome after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC. 499 BC - A battle against foreign tribes commences, including the construction of the Temple of Castor and Pollux. 396 BC - The Etruscan city of Veio is defeated by the Romans; 390 BC - Rome is sacked by the Gauls after the Battle of the Allia
Tribes conquered by the Roman Republic (15 P) Pages in category "Tribes conquered by Rome" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.