Source+2

"The Kings." //The Roman Empire//. Web. 15 Sept. 2010. .


 * 1) According to Roman history, which in this period was just as much myth as history, Romulus the founder was also the first king
 * 2) Romulus is said to have expanded the city of Rome to four hills, the Capitoline, Aventine, Caelian and Quirinal.
 * 3) one of Romulus' most famous episodes was the so called 'Rape of the Sabine Women'
 * 4) the Romans invted many neighboring tribes to a festival at which point they took "possesion" of the unmarried Sabine women
 * 5) the Sabines naturally declared war
 * 6) the Sabines managed to capture Capitoline Hill because a traitor opened the gates
 * 7) another tradition holds that then the Sabine women intervened and stopped the fighting between their new husbands and their former relatives
 * 8) henceforth the Romans and the Sabines became one people and Romulus and his Sabine Coleague ruled jointly Romulus from the palantine and King Tatius from the Capitoline hill.
 * 9) Historical discoveries support that they did indeed become one people
 * 10) one of which is that the Romans alternate name for themselves is the Sabine word for children of Mars
 * 11) Romulus' death is also very mysterious, when he was making a sacrifice to a river god a thunderstrom struck and the people fled leaving Romulus and the Senators alone
 * 12) when they returned Romulus was gone and the senators said he was taken to the heavens by his father Mars
 * 13) historians believed he was stabbed to death by the senators and thrown into the river for behaving like a tyrant.
 * 14) Numa Pompilius was the next king
 * 15) after the death of Romulus, the Sabines demanded that the next king be one of their own
 * 16) the Romans agreed as long as they approved the candidate, and so Pompiliius was chosen and approved