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According to legend, [[Founding of Rome|Rome was founded]] on 21 April 753 BC by twin descendants of the [[Troy|Trojan]] prince [[Aeneas]], [[Romulus and Remus]].<ref>{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9JJdqJ8YGH8C&pg=PA5|last1=Adkins|first1= Lesley |last2= Adkins|first2 = Roy|date = 1998| page= 3|title = Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome|publisher = Oxford University Press|location = New York|isbn = 978-0195123326}}</ref> As the city was bereft of women, legend says that the Latins invited the [[Sabines]] to a festival and stole their unmarried maidens, resulting in the integration of Latins and Sabines.<ref>[http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/mythslegends_3.htm Myths and Legends – Rome, the Wolf, and Mars] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529053414/http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/mythslegends_3.htm |date=29 May 2007 }}. Accessed 8 March 2007.</ref>

Archaeological evidence indeed shows first traces of settlement at the [[Roman Forum]] in the mid-8th century BC, though settlements on the [[Palatine Hill]] may date back to the 10th century BC.<ref>{{cite book|last = Matyszak|first = Philip|date = 2003| page= 19|title = Chronicle of the Roman Republic: The Rulers of Ancient Rome from Romulus to Augustus|publisher = Thames & Hudson|isbn = 978-0500051214}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Duiker|first1=William|last2=Spielvogel|first2=Jackson|title=World History|date=2001|publisher=Wadsworth|isbn=978-0-534-57168-9|url=https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryto1500duik/page/129 |url-access=registration |page=129|edition=Third}}</ref>

According to legend, the seventh and final king of Rome was [[Tarquinius Superbus]]. As the son of [[Tarquinius Priscus]] and the son-in-law of [[Servius Tullius]], Superbus was of Etruscan birth. It was during his reign that the Etruscans reached their apex of power. Superbus removed and destroyed all the Sabine shrines and altars from the [[Tarpeian Rock]], enraging the people of Rome. The people came to object to his rule when he failed to recognize the rape of [[Lucretia]], a patrician Roman, by his own son. Lucretia's kinsman, [[Lucius Junius Brutus]] (ancestor to [[Marcus Brutus]]), summoned the Senate and had Superbus and the monarchy expelled from Rome in 510 BC. After Superbus' expulsion, the Senate in 509 BC voted to never again allow the rule of a king and reformed Rome into a [[Roman Republic|republican government]].