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republic confederation. The Etruscan power deteriorated when the Greek of Syracus in Sicily destroyed the Etruscan fleet in 474 B. C. The northern Gaulic raids destroyed the Etruscan power in 390 B. C. The Northern Gauls and the Greeks of Southern Italy who were both of the Aryan stock, finally destroyed Etruria“.
The Romans of South Italy had the gentile system of the Greek pattern. They had the Greek aristo
cratic system Circa 500 B. C. They were The Romans
divided into the aristocrats and the common citizens, the patricians and the plebians. The unitary system of the tribal chieftainship gave way in favour of two consuls. The council of Nobility was known as Senate. Later, the consulship developed into Censorship and the Senate into popular assembly. The three Punic Wars between 262-146. B.C. undermined Roman power. Romans based their state on the Aryan methods of violence and exploitation, Slavery in Rome was more savage than of Babylon. They enjoyed in public festivities of gladiatorial combats. Human sacrifice obtained amongst them. Roman history, like the Greek history, was the history of war, violence, abundance of captives and exploitation. Monarchy was firmly established in Rome in the later part of the first century B. C.
The Aryans in West Asia submitted to the Assyrian power in the later part of the second millenninm B.C. The republican institutions had long ceased to exist due to the incessant tribal onslaughts of the Materialists of the Desert and the Materialists of the Mountains. Assyria developed monarchy. The Persian Monarchy under Cyrus destroyed the Assyrian Monarchy. Egypt also did lay at the feet of Persian monarchy in the sixth century B.C. The Aryan tribalism in its developed stage of monarchy was triumph
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