1. Ancient Rome
Accounts Livy, "Not without good reason did gods and men choose this spot as the site of a city, with its bracing hills, its [spacious] river by means of which the produce of inland countries may be brought down and inland supplies obtained; a sea near enough for all useful purposes, but not so near as to be exposed to danger from foreign fleets; a district in the very center of Italy, in a word, a position singularly adapted by a nature for the growth of a city." ... Romulus later said he regretted killing his brother, but life goes on. ... The previous king appointed someone, and that perso...
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