000 people or more in the mid-second century ad might relate to guesses about the total size of the population of the Roman empire.-Even the lower ends
From its beginnings in the Near East, agriculture spread into Europe from 9000 to 6000 years ago through two main routes: a northern terrestrial route into northern-central Europe, and a rapid southern maritime route which followed the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea7,8. The central Medi...
bounded by Germany, Belgium and the North Sea. The country is divided into twelve provinces and has a complex demographic history, with occupation by several Germanic peoples since the collapse of the Roman Empire, including the Frisians, the Low Saxons and the Franks. Over 17 million...
From its beginnings in the Near East, agriculture spread into Europe from 9000 to 6000 years ago through two main routes: a northern terrestrial route into northern-central Europe, and a rapid southern maritime route which followed the northern coast of the Mediterranean Sea7,8. The central Medi...
to the early 10th century AD. As one of the most important cradles of Chinese civilization, it marked the start of the famous "Silk Road" that linked China with central Asia and the Roman Empire. Xian, or Changan as it was called in ancient times, is known as the city of "Everlasting...
The surviving porti ons of his two major works the — Annals and the Histories examin — e the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). Th ese two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the ...
Regular towns, such as Ribe, do not appear until the Germanic Iron Age c.400-750 AD. The unification of the country under a central power began 700 AD. As the Frankish empire declined, a stable royal power developed which, although it probably did not cover the entire Danish territory, ...
With the withdrawal of the Roman Empire, breeding populations in at least Northern Europe likely perished with later medieval introductions giving rise to many populations today (Sykes et al., 2016). More recently, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, humans went on to spread this ...
Also important to Sri Lanka’s cultural development has been its position as the nexus of important maritime trade routes between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Long before the European discovery of an oceanic route to India in the 15th century, Sri Lanka was known to Greek, Roman, Pers...
Gaul under the high empire (c. 50bce–c. 250ce) The first centuries of Roman rule were remarkable for the speedy assimilation of Gaul into the Greco-Roman world. This was a consequence of both the light hand of the Roman imperial administration and the highly receptive nature of Gallic-Cel...