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It started as a City-State, and it grew up to be the greatest Empire the world has seen.
Pat
It was an empire!
Peech
it was a city state.
Lisistrata
It was a city that became an empire!
cfizz
republic and then empire...
atwil
Rome was a city. The Roman Empire was a "country." Sometimes, however, Rome is used synonymously with the Roman Empire.
samanthajanecaroline
Rome was a city and it goverend the Ancient Roman Empire which was countries and part of countries.
Rick
Rome was a city. But in the old days, cities ruled their surrounding areas. Eventually, Rome expanded their rule by conquering the same people that ruled them, as well as others.
For more info;
http://www.roman-empire.net/army/army.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/rome.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome
D'archangel
Both; it was a city-state.
Vatican City continues in that tradition -- except that it is a country that is a subset of a city. Which I guess makes it a neighborhood-state or a suburb-state. };)
sethsdadiam
I'd have to go with the city answer because countries as we know them came later.
David L
Rome itself was a city, the Roman Empire covered a good portion of the world at that time.
₪djanma₪ [a man in the maze]
at the age of roman empire, rome was a city as actually is...the "caput mundi" (capital of the world).
Uncle John
I always thought it was an ancient city in Italy, or middle east
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