Ancient Rome Do you know that if you lived during ancient Rome and you have a crooked nose, you would have been considered a leader? Your birthday would have been a major event too and celebrated like a festival, with gifts from relatives, friends and neighbors. Sounds interesting? Good for those with crooked noses, but life’s not all sunny for other people who were part of the ancient Rome. A toga was usually worn by the early Romans. This is basically just a white sheet that is about nine meters in length. However, the togas were found to be very inconvenient that they did not stay long in the fashion scene. Tunis took the place of the togas, which look and feel like oversized shirts. Men of ancient Rome wore rings, and proper manners tell them to wear only one ring. However, some men would purposely go against what was "right" and wore as many as sixteen rings. There were no definite hairstyles and no rules about beards. Men sport varied styles throughout the years. Women in ancient Rome take great pride in how they look. They love to put on makeup, fix their hair, dress up, and adorn themselves with jewelries. And like the men, women wore sandals, but theirs were brightly-colored ones. Girls get married when they were about 12 years old or even less. They were expected to bear as many children as they can afford to have. Women, who were not wealthy families had to go to work and help support their families. Husbands preferred sons over daughters because sons could carry their family names. Thus, exposing a newborn was common in ancient Rome. This means that the newborn babies were displayed at the father’s feet for recognition. In the event that the father picks up the child, the child was recognized as the father’s own. Babies who were not recognized were either thrown in the river or left on the same spot to starve. Even if ancient Rome sounds close to "romance", it does not mean the same thing. In fact, ancient Rome speaks little, if at all, about romance. Marriage was not even held as a ceremony. It was merely a union of two people living together as a couple or whenever a dowry was paid. Divorce is just as simple as marriage was. Since infertility is a strong ground for divorce, the wives are actually expected to initiate the divorce to make way for the husbands to have children with somebody else. Unless you’re a leader or a wealthy person in ancient Rome, there isn’t much to be envious about that time, and more so if you’re a woman. However, people seem to have found pleasures in each of their lives. Touring Ancient Rome the First Time A primitive civilization that was founded in the circa of the Italian Peninsula of the 9th century BC, Ancient Rome changed from aristocracy to oligarchy until they were such a huge empire that was looked up to by the whole world. Since they were very powerful, they were able to take hold of Western Europe as well as the whole boundaries of water that surrounded the Mediterranean Sea. It was done only by invasion and integration. The likes of Gual, Hispania and Italy were all subject to them but in the 5th century, they were all divided into independent kingdom. As for the eastern region of the Ancient Rome, it was governed by Constantinople. Highly regarded as the Byzantine Empire after 476, the original date of its fall as well as with its succeeding inception of the Middle Ages. They were frequently grouped into "classical antiquity" together with the Greeks who were very much knowledgeable on a number of subjects. As a matter of fact, the brainchild of Mathematics and Science came from their very own line. Its neighboring nation also made remarkable contributions in the area of literature, technology, law, art, architecture and language which until now have been very critical to contemporary research studies. Little known to most people, Ancient Rome was derived from settlements that were enveloped by fords on the Tiber River. It was considered as a center for traffic and trade where as archeological evidence would speak, it was established by the Sabines and Latins on the hills of Capitoline, Palatine and Quirinal. Previously, it was the Etruscans who inhabited in the northern branch who were able to control in political agendas by the late 7th century. Not for long, they lost their dominion and was overtaken by a group of persons who formed the republic. They exercised tough restraints when implementing their authority. Latter part of the 509 BC, councilors of Ancient Rome served as consultants to kings. Tarquin the Proud was the last of their breed who was later forced to be out of his position. After the incident took place, magistrates were elected based on a system they adopted. There entered into the picture, the several representatives from the many assemblies. The most important of them were the consuls who practiced executive right in the form of military command. They fought with those who were in the senate and were also able to have dominion even when they were just treated as neophytes. They controlled a lot of other individuals as their influence became stronger.