The Tale Of Rome

Partial Transcripthttp://www.thetaleofrome.com/rome-003Hello, this is Abel, speaking from Beijing, China.Welcome to the Tale of Rome, Episode 3 — Roman M Seeking F.Last week we saw how, after many generations, Rome was established at the edge of the river Tiber, and we also saw how Romulus, Numitor’s grandson—and son of Rhea Silvia and god Mars, became the first King of Rome.I think if for a common man there is nothing as sweet as having a home of his own, for a man the size of Romulus, there couldn’t have been anything sweeter than having a city of his own.The only tiny problem for the moment was that his city was still not able to defend itself, and it also couldn’t grow.So, we are going to see how Romulus addressed these two issues of high priority.[…]After Romulus founded his city, it became pretty obvious that it would be necessary to attract people to the city.Rome needed new inhabitants.To that end, Romulus opened the gates of his city, but what happened next was that the first immigrants to the new ci