Improvements to Rome

• introduced envoys


  formal system for declaring war including voting
• built a bridge over the Tiber river
• increased the strength of Romulus


  Fortified the city including the strong Janiculum Hill
• Political


  people got given a greater say in foreign affairs

  tribes could vote on war
• Social


  expanded Rome and settled Latins(/citizens from outside city) on the Aventine hill

  prison was built above forum
• Port of Ostia was founded at the Tiber’s mouth and salt-work was established nearby
• He inherits time of war rather than peace - unlucky timing