During 200 years of relative peace and prosperity, the Roman Empire reached the peak of its political and economic power. From the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE to Operation Mincemeat in WWII, discover 7 risky gambles that ended up changing world history, in this episode of History Countdown...
The Roman Empire, founded in 27 B.C., was a vast and powerful domain that gave rise to the culture, laws, technologies and institutions that continue to define Western civilization.
Ancient Rome - Christianity, Empire, Constantine: Constantine and Licinius soon disputed among themselves for the empire. Constantine attacked his adversary for the first time in 316, taking the dioceses of Pannonia and Moesia from him. A truce between t
The empire eventually split in two and became the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The two emperors would sometimes cooperate with each other and at other times were in conflict. The fates of the two halves of the Roman Empire were quite different. The Western Roman Empire ...
during which the government changed substantially from kings to Republic to Empire. This timeline shows these major divisions over time and the defining features of each, with links to further timelines showing the key events in each period. The central period of Roman history runs from about the...
Discover Ancient Rome from the legendary period dominated by kings through the Republic and Empire with biographies, timelines, and maps.
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Roman roads and highways played a pivotal role in the rise of the Roman state, expanding all across the Roman Republic and then the Roman Empire. In a period of about 700 years, they built about 55,000 miles of paved highways around the Mediterranean basin and across Europe – a feat tha...
--Emperor Marcus Aurelius\nSeeking to control an empire that spread throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond, the ancient Romans developed a distinctive culture in which they adapted many Greek ideas and styles but also created a wealth of new ones. The Roman heritage continues to affect ...
The timeline of Ancient Greece begins in the 8th century BC when Greece managed to emerge from the Dark Ages after the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. It ends with the annexation of Greece to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. Below is a timeline of the most important dates and events that...