Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-6912688-20130416211138/@comment-6912688-20130616190250

Daxus Inferno wrote: Latins were Rome after the Etruscans went extinct. I will comment on this too.

As I said above, the Latins were not Rome. Rome was Latin in culture, but the Latins were not Roman. Basically, Rome was one of the Latin tribes/city-states that rose above the rest, eventually conquering its culturally similar neighbors and Etruria.