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Come with Sarah and Giovanni to the Capitoline Hill at sunset.

For 244 years Rome had kings – seven very different kings.

One night everything changed. The people got very angry and threw the last king out forever.

In this easy-English episode you will learn:

• How Rome grew from small muddy villages into a real city
• Romulus the fighter and Numa the peaceful king who loved religion
• A rich man from another country who came and became king
• Big new things the kings built: a giant temple, a racetrack, walls, and sewers
• A poor slave boy whose head was on fire (but he was okay!) – he later became a good king
• A terrible story about a princess who drove over her father with her chariot
• The sad story of Lucretia and how her death ended the time of kings
• How Rome started the Republic and promised “never again a king”

Big myths, real history, and a lot of drama – all told with simple words.

When the app is ready, this episode has its own walking map: from the Capitoline Hill to the old city wall and the street that is still called “Crime Street” today.

Next episode: the exciting and dangerous early years of the new Republic!

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Welcome to the first episode of Rome Unveiled (Simple English)!In future episodes, we will talk about Roman food, buildings, stories, and daily life. But today, we start from the very beginning — the mud.

Before the marble… there was a swamp.

Many people know Rome as a city of stone, temples, and emperors. But long ago, it was very different. Join Sarah and local guide Giovanni as they travel 2,800 years into the past to discover the early Rome that existed before the Republic and before famous monuments.

Imagine the ground wet and soft, the smell of wood smoke, the sound of sheep and simple tools.Small villages stood on top of hills. A muddy valley below was used as a cemetery. A river crossing nearby helped people trade goods like salt.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why early people chose this "muddy and difficult place" to live.
• What the small "hut urns" tell us about life and death in early Rome.
• How stories like Romulus and Remus may hide real memories from the past.
• How a simple salt road helped turn a cemetery into the Roman Forum.
• How the Etruscans changed Roman buildings, religion, and politics.

This episode helps you see Rome in a new way — not as a city built only by power,but as a place shaped by many people working together through time.

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