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 471 BC – Latin settlers reoccupy the Rome area.

 469 BC – The Latin settlers are chased off by the Fidenates, who weren’t signatories of the treaty and want control of the trade route from Etruria to Magna Graecia. They found a village about 2 miles south of where Rome had stood.

 467 BC – Sensing that the Latins are weak, Pometia allies with the Aurunci (as it did in 503/502, I will include the Latin revolt in my complete timeline) and they set about carving out an empire for themselves. They begin with Cora, as it refuses to join them, and manage to capture the triple-walled city after just 5 weeks of siege. They regroup in the ruins of the city, and wait out the winter.

 466 BC – Cora is turned into a vassal of the alliance, and forced to pay tribute. Many of the males are conscripted or enslaved, while many women and children are enslaved. When the Pometia/Aurunci alliance leaves in mid-March, they leave Cora a depopulated, empty husk of its former self. They begin to make their way north, burning and looting as they go. The Latin league begins to marshal its forces, but it turns out that it’s unnecessary. The Campanians capitalize on the lack of an Aurunci army in its homeland and, with the blessing of the Capuan league and aid from Osci, attack the Aurunci homeland. The Aurunci army rushes to defend their homes, and Pometia, now outnumbered and in enemy territory, hastily withdraws. The Latins muster a small army and Pometia surrenders. It is forcibly incorporated into the Latin league, and its high ranking government officials are executed and replaced with Latin puppets.

 465 BC – The Latins, with the help of the Campanian army, conclude a non-agression treaty with Aurunci, though they cannot force Aurunci to pay an indemnity due to the fact that the Aurunci army is at least as strong as the standing Latin army, and the Aurunci people have not just spent three years engaged in a costly foreign war. The Campanians go home. The Latin league announces their intention to help Cora (which, needless to say, stopped providing money to the Aurunci/Pometia alliance as soon as their army left Latium) recover.

 463 BC – Clusium goes to war with Veii over control of the newly-opened trade route located where Rome had stood. The Latin league votes to back Clusium, though only Praeneste, Aristia, and Bauco (bullied into it by Aristia) actually contribute troops. Gabii sends supplies to Veii, but decides to stay neutral. Clusium/Latin forces are met in battle near Mola by Veiite forces. Veii ultimately loses the confrontation, but not by a very large margin. Both armies retreat to their respective territories to wait out the winter.

 462 BC – Clusium/Latin forces once again rout Veiite forces, this time with a casualty rate of a third of the Veiite men. The Etruscan city of Caere, seeing the success of the Clusium/Latin alliance, joins the war on their side. Veii sues for peace, but their offer is rejected. The city of Veii is besieged.

 457 BC – After five years of siege, the walls of Veii are breached, and fierce street fighting takes place. The Veiite forces are eventually pushed back into the citadel, along with much of the panicked populace that follows them in. Disease and starvation run rampant, and the Citadel defenders surrender after just a month. Everyone of importance is executed, half the population is enslaved, and the other half is deported to resettle Cora in Latium. The city is sacked and razed, and rebuilt as a Clusium military colony named Noscaverus (“Our guard” in Etruscan. Caver means “to be on one’s guard”, so I guess a more literal translation would be “Our guardedness”.). Vetulonia, fearing for its safety, agrees to become a vassal of Clusium.

 And history shall continue as I think up what will happen next…