Before you go to Italy: eras, customs, phrases and what is still there

Eras in a line

• Nuraghi, Greeks and early Rome (1800–509 BC)
• The Roman Republic (509–27 BC)
• The Roman Empire (27 BC–476)
• The early Middle Ages (476–1000)
• Communes, emperors and popes (1000–1400)
• The Renaissance (1400–1559)
• Foreign rule and the Baroque (1559–1796)
• Napoleon and the Risorgimento (1796–1870)
• Liberal Italy and the Great War (1870–1922)
• Fascism and the war (1922–1945)
• The Republic (1946–)