It all began when the Romans overthrew their Etruscan conquerors in 509 B.C.E. Centered north of Rome, the Etruscans had ruled over the Romans for hundreds of years. Once free, the Romans established a republic, a government in which citizens elected representatives to rule on their behalf.
<span>The darkened area in the map shows one of the nations which joined the United States in the Normandy Invasion of 1944. This nation is the</span> D. United Kingdom.
