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Reading Questions: The Founding of Rome
1. Who are considered to be the founders of Rome according to legend?
2. Who were their parents? What is interesting about their father? Why is it surprising that their mother ever had
children?
3. Why were the two children (Romulus and Remus) abandoned?
4. How were they able to survive?
5. Romulus and Remus decided to found a town. Where did they found it?
6. What conflict happened between the brothers? Why? What was the outcome of this conflict?
7. Summarize the conflict between Romulus and the Sabines, an Italian tribe.
8. At the end of that conflict, which two people ruled over the Romans and the Sabines together?
9. What happened to Romulus at the end of his life?
10. Why do people doubt that this legend is true?