From Monarchy to Republic

A republic is a where someone is elected as there representative or president. The republic began in Rome when the monarch was destroyed because the king and his son were bad people. The son of the king raped a woman named Lucretia, and then she killed herself. So her husband and friends Brutus, Collatinus, and Valerius went and killed the son and the king fled. That was in 509 BC when this happened. Then they started to elect their leaders in Rome after all of that happened.