Which of the following statements best characterizes early rome?
select the best answer from the choices provided.
it was famous for always being a republic free of foreign domination.
rome was a small town in a backwater of the mediterranean for its first few hundred years.
the early romans civilized the primitive inhabitants of central and southern italy.
the early romans and their language, latin, were closely related to the etruscans and their language.

the influence of daoism, buddhism, and legalism on chinese culture. unlike confucianism, daoism looked to nature rather than human beings as the source of morality. according to laozi, human society has to conform to the dao (the way), or the essential unifying element of all that is. some interpret dao as nature.

herodotus taught this. herodotus was an ancient greek historian who was born in halicarnassus in the persian empire. he is known for having written the book the histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the greco-persian wars.