where did the name rome come from?
Romulus and Remus
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 In the medieval West , " Roman " came to mean the church and the Pope of Rome . The Greek form Romaioi remained attached to the Greek @-@ speaking Christian population of the Eastern Roman Empire , and is still used by Greeks in addition to their common appellation . 

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 They ignited a heated controversy and brought it to Rome . They raised three main points of contention : 

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 Rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the republic in the 6th century BC , though it did not expand outside the Italian Peninsula until the 3rd century BC . Then , it was an " empire " long before it had an emperor . The Roman Republic was not a nation @-@ state in the modern sense , but a network of towns left to rule themselves ( though with varying degrees of independence from the Roman Senate ) and provinces administered by military commanders . It was ruled , not by emperors , but by annually elected magistrates ( Roman Consuls above all ) in conjunction with the senate . For various reasons , the 1st century BC was a time of political and military upheaval , which ultimately led to rule by emperors . The consuls ' military power rested in the Roman legal concept of imperium , which literally means " command " ( though typically in a military sense ) . Occasionally , successful consuls were given the honorary title imperator ( commander ) , and this is the origin of the word emperor ( and empire ) since this title ( among others ) was always bestowed to the early emperors upon their accession . 

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 Rome 's earliest history , from the time of its founding as a small tribal village , to the downfall of its kings , is the least well preserved . Although the early Romans were literate to some degree , this void may be due to the lack of will to record their history at that time , or such histories as they did record were lost . 

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