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The Seed of Rome: From Mud Huts to an Empire
Imagine a muddy, mosquito-ridden crossroads in central Italy around 750 BCE — no marble, no empire, no Caesar. This is where our story begins. In this pilot episode, Lucas and Luna stand on the future site of the Roman Forum, then just a valley of pasture and marsh. They explore the earliest layers of Italian history: the mysterious Etruscans who taught Rome writing, engineering, and gladiators; the Greek colonists who brought olives, vines, and alphabet to the south; and the first Romans themselves — Latin-speaking farmers who worshipped local gods and built a tiny settlement on the Palatine…
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