The Roman Empire had an aversion to naming absolute rulers. That’s why instead of naming ‘kings’, they hademperors. Even if, ironically, the emperor usually held a lot more power. Much of what Augustus did was modelled on the behaviour of Julius Caesar, who repeatedly refused the epigrap...
Thanks to Augustus Caesar, the Roman Empire was established after he proclaimed himself the first emperor of Rome in 31 B.C. Click for more facts.
Constantine was the youngest and junior leader among the four emperors, but over time seized power alone. Alliances and conflicts during the period of tetrarchy were quite complicated. If you want more detailed information about it, you can read another article I wrote, calledThe Roman Tetrarchy....
According to "Pyramid Mysteries," there's a great deal of controversy about whose urine scents the pyramids and their winding passageways. At first, archaeologists and scholars postulated that it belonged to the workers, but they quickly determined that was not likely the case because most of th...
Learn about the Roman Colosseum. Learn what is the Colosseum, who built the Colosseum and when, notable architectural details, and why it is...
36. Roman Citizens wore togas, but it was forbidden for slaves and foreigners And finally, the last of the main interesting facts Rome has to offer; about clothes! The Toga is the cloth usually associated with Ancient Rome. It’s a simple cloth, draped over the body, and you will see ...
Pecunia non olet means “money does not smell”. This phrase was coined as a result of the urine tax levied by the Roman emperors Nero and Vespasian in the 1st century upon the collection of urine. The lower classes of Roman society urinated into pots which were emptied into cesspools. Th...
The blend of these two approaches produced some of the following surprising facts about health and medicine in the Roman Empire. Games in the Colosseum 1. The blood and liver of slain gladiators were believed to be cures for epilepsy. The spilling of a gladiator’s blood didn’t necessarily ...
Interesting Facts about Ancient Mesopotamia Mesopotamia comes from two Greek words meaning land in the middle of rivers. The term Mesopotamia is used to refer to a historic area within the Tigris and Euphrates River in western Asia. Ancient Mesopotamia... Greatest Emperors of Ancient China Myriads...
between the empire had been evolving since the late 3rd century AD. Some time after Constantine's death, the split became permanent, and the two halves were governed by separate emperors. The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, but the Eastern Roman Empire continued for nearly 1,000 years...