Who conquered the Romans very early in their history?

Answer 1

Answer

This depends on what time period is being referred to.

Hannibal a great military leader from Carthage in North Africa led a force over the Italian Alps into Italy in 218 BC. After a number of lesser victories, he inflicted the greatest ever recorded defeat of Roman forces at Cannae in 216 BC. The Romans had far superior numbers but Hannibal better tactics by retreating in the center and then encircling the Romans his army killed around 50,000 also with the help of his superior cavalry.

Much earlier, in 390 BC both the Roman historian Livy as well as British Chroniclers record a sack of Rome itself by the Britons. The two accounts confirm each other including the names of the leaders of the Britons. Livy's account is in Book 5 of his history. He records the leader of the Gallic attack on Rome as Brennus, whom the Britons named Bran.

Answer 2

Etruscans

The Romans went on to conquer many other peoples in addition to the Etruscans, and build up a huge empire. The Etruscans were conquered early, and in fact a large part of the Etruscan people remained in the area and became absorbed into the Roman people (originally the Latins). In the immediate area they also conquered the Greeks, who inhabited the Italian peninsula to the south of Rome. (Later, they conquered Greece itself.)

Answer 3

The first major group to defeat the Romans would be the Etruscans who ruled them during the monarchy.

Answer 4

The early Romans were conquered by the Etruscans.

Answer 5

The Etruscans conquered the Romans early in their history.