The story sounds a little bit like the story of Moses. Romulus and Remus were going to be thrown into the Tiber River, but instead they got put in a basket because the servant couldn't bear having them be dead. He put the basket in the river and it was found by a wolf, but the wolf did not eat them, it instead took care of them as if they were it's own. Then, it became summer and a farmer found them in a cave and took them home and showed them to his wife. They named them Romulus and Remus. They grew up to be strong men and fought with robbers.
They wanted to build a city on 7 hills so they got every shepherd they knew to help them. Everything was well until Romulus decided he wanted to be king. Then his brother said, "I will show you how silly a wall this is" and he leaped over it with one bound and when his feet touched the ground, an angry shepherd pounded him with his shovel and he died. So, his brother named the city Rome after himself. There were 7 kings of Rome and Romulus was the first king.
We do not know if this is a true story or not.
What I think is silly, is that Romulus wanted to be King, but, Why don't they both be king? I think most of it is true.
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This is about the history I learned in my second grade class.
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Very good story about Romulus and Remus. I agree it is a bit silly.. but then - the ancient Romans didn't have you around to make it a better story.
How would you have made the story better?
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I would have made a different law and my brother would not be killed for going over the wall. I think the law that said, "no one can go over the wall or they will be killed" was pretty stupid. A better law is "people from Rome can go inside and out, just the bad people can not go in and out, or else they will be killed."
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