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The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Romans conquered most of this during the Republic, and it was ruled by emperors following Octavian 's assumption of effective sole rule in 27 BC. The western empire collapsed in 476 AD, but the eastern empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople ...
- Rome: The Village That Became An Empire
- Roman Victory in Africa and The East
- The Conquests of Caesar and Beyond
- The Roman Empire at Its Height
- What Made Rome Expand?
The story of Romulus and Remus is just a legend, but Rome’s mighty empire did growfrom what was little more than a village in the 8th century BC or even earlier. In the 6th century BC Rome was subservient to the Etruscans, part of a Latin League of city states that operated as loose federation, cooperating on some matters, independent on others. By...
In southern Italy, they butted up against another great power, Carthage, a city in modern Tunisia. The two powers first fought in Sicily, and by 146 BC Rome had utterly defeated their great maritime rival and added large parts of North Africa and all of modern Spain to their territory. With Carthage swept aside, there was no credible rival for Medi...
Julius Caesar took Roman power to the north, conquering Gaul (roughly modern France, Belgium and parts of Switzerland) by 52 BC in the wars that gave him the popular reputation to seize power for himself. He also explored further expansion into modern Germany and over the English Channel to Britain. Caesar is a fine example of a Roman general expan...
Emperor Trajan (ruled 98 – 117 AD) was Rome’s most expansionist ruler, his death marking the high water mark of Rome’s size. He campaigned against Dacia (modern Romania and Moldova, and parts of Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, and Ukraine), adding most of it to the Empire by 106 AD. He also made conquests in Arabia and took on the Parthian Empire to add...
Why Rome was so successful at conquest and what drove it to expand from so early in its history and for so long is an interesting question with complex and inconclusive answers. Those answers might include everything from early population growth to the birth of a very military society; a belief in Roman superiority to economics and urbanisation.
- Colin Ricketts
Oct 2, 2024 · Roman Empire, the ancient empire, centerd on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 bce following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the empire of the West in the 5th century ce. A brief treatment of the Roman Empire follows. For full treatment, see ancient Rome.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Colin Ricketts
- The Romulus and Remus story is a myth. The name Romulus was probably invented to fit the name of the city he was said to have founded on the Palatine Hill before killing his twin.
- By the fourth century BC, the story was accepted by Romans who were proud of their warrior founder. The story was included in the first history of the city, by the Greek writer Diocles of Peparethus, and the twins and their wolf step-mother were depicted on Rome’s first coins.
- The new city’s first conflict was with the Sabine people. Packed with immigrating young men, the Romans needed female inhabitants and kidnapped Sabine women, sparking a war that ended with a truce and the two sides joining forces.
- From the start Rome had an organised military. Regiments of 3,000 infantry and 300 cavalry were called legions and their foundation was ascribed to Romulus himself.
Aug 27, 2024 · The larger historical period spanning from the output of ancient Greek author Homer in the 8th century bce to the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th century ce is known as "Classical antiquity," encompassing Greco-Roman culture, playing a major role in the Mediterranean sphere of influence and in the creation of Western civilization, and shaping areas as diverse as law, architecture, art ...
The Roman Empire lasted from 700BC to AD476. At the peak of its power, Rome ruled more than 45 million people across Europe, North Africa and Asia. Its army was the most powerful in the world. As ...
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Feb 17, 2011 · A gap of 2,000 years may seem to have put the Romans at a safe distance from our own lives and experience, but modern Europe with its Union is unthinkable without the Roman Empire. It is part of ...
