At first, the city of Rome was just a small, peaceful settlement. But after a while, it started to attack and raid it's neighboring settlements, and soon, it had control of a large piece of land to build on. The settlement was most likely founded by a prince that ecaped Troy during the Trojan war, he ran away and settled down in the area that would later become the great city of Rome. Since the residence of the settlement had control of so much land, they decided to turn their settlement into a small city and make all of the residence of the conquered settlements citizens of their new city, which would later be Rome. Soon they started to invade the neighboring land and this went on until Rome had control of the whole of Italy, and after a very long time, Rome had control o a mighty Empire, the Roman Empire.