I’ve been dying to write about this.

America has actually mirrored the rise of Rome in many ways.

ROMAN REPUBLIC

1. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Rex

   |_ King of Rome (535 BC - 509 BC)

   |_ Unpopular King that was overthrown in a Republican Revolution

2. Lucius Junius Brutus

   |_ Consul (509 BC - 509 BC)

   |_ Symbolic Leader of the Revolution

   |_ One of the first two executives of the Republic

3. Overthrow of the Roman Monarchy (509 BC)

4. Battle of the Allia (390 BC)

   |_ Humiliating defeat that resulted in the capital burning

5. Wars of Hegemony [Rise as Sole Western Power]

   |_ Pyrrhic War (280 BC - 275 BC) [Recognized as Great Power by World]

   |_ First Punic War (264 BC - 241 BC)

   |_ Second Punic War (218 BC - 201 BC)

   |_ First Macedonian War (214 BC - 205 BC)

   |_ Second Macedonian War (200 BC - 197 BC)

   |_ Roman-Seleucid War (192 BC - 188 BC)

   |_ Third Macedonian War (171 BC - 168 BC)

   |_ Fourth Macedonian War (150 BC - 148 BC)

   |_ Third Punic War (149 BC - 146 BC) [Western Hegemony Achieved]

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1. King George III

   |_ King of Great Britain (1760 - 1776)

   |_ Unpopular King that was overthrown in a Republican Revolution

2. George Washington

   |_ President (1789 - 1797)

   |_ Symbolic Leader of the Revolution

   |_ First executive of the Republic

3. American Revolution (1776)

4. Battle of Bladensburg (1814)

   |_ Humiliating defeat that resulted in the capital burning

5. Wars of Hegemony [Rise as Sole Western Power]

   |_ Spanish-American War (1898 - 1898) [Recognized as Great Power by World]

   |_ World War I (1917 - 1918)

   |_ World War II (1941 - 1945)

   |_ Cold War (1947 - 1991) [Western Hegemony Achieved]

POTENTIAL SIMILARITIES

1. Civil War

   |_ Latin War (340 BC - 338 BC) [Possibly a Civil War]

   |_ American Civil War (1861 - 1865)

2. War(s) of Mainland Expansion

   |_ Samnite Wars

   | |_ First Samnite War (343 BC - 341 BC)

   | |_ Second Samnite War (326 BC - 304 BC)

   | |_ Third Samnite War (298 BC - 290 BC)

   |_ Mexican-American War (1846 - 1848)

POTENTIAL TRUMP EQUIVALENTS

1. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus

   |_ Tribune (133 BC - 133 BC)

2. Gaius Julius Caesar

   |_ Consul (59 BC - 59 BC)

   |_ Dictator (49 BC - 44 BC)