Now that we know how important roads were to the Roman Empire, how did people travel upon them? When it came to the legions, marching was the order of the day for most troopers, and the average Roman soldier, fully laden, could travel up to 25 Roman miles in one day. For the averag...
the second appeared in the 7th centurybc. The height of amphorae varies from large Geometric vases of 5 feet (1.5 metres) to examples of 12 inches (30 centimetres) or even smaller (the smallest are calledamphoriskoi). The average normal height is about 18 inches (45 centimetres). Amphora...
It might sound more like the scientific name of a rare animal, but this Libyan site is home to an unbelievably well-preserved Roman port. Once a thriving city, flourishing on the trade from deeper Africa, Lepcis Magna was gradually swallowed up by desert sands after the Roman Empire collapsed...
However, as the map above shows GDP per capita varied widely across the Empire. In Italia, the core of the Empire in 14AD, average GDP per capita is estimated to have been as high as $857, making it actually higher than Congo’s today. This was caused, in part, by the fact that ...
and intriguing rulers. The Roman Empire was established in 27 BCE. Due to years of decline and vicious attacks, the western half of the Empire fell in 676 CE. This lesson will examine how many Roman emperors there were, and their impact as the Empire reached its height to its final days...
It was taken by the French (1672) in the third of the Dutch Wars, and the treaties—between Louis XIV, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire—that ended the hostilities were signed there in 1678–79. Nijmegen was the capital of Gelderland until its capture in 1794 by the ...
But something happened to give rise to a rather different sort of cultural hero by the Late Roman Empire. In 203 CE, a young noblewoman and her slave were executed in Carthage, thrown into the arena with the lions. Their crime? A stubborn faith: the belief that a Jewish man who lived...
Table 2. Average composition of the orange and red zones of the striated samples by EPMA. Numbers in parenthesis indicate the uncertainty on the last digit, computed as the standard variation. A base glass composition was calculated for the orange and red regions by subtracting from the composi...
At the height of theRoman Empirein the mid second century AD, some have estimated that the total slave population may have approached 10 million people, or approximately 1/6 of the population as a whole. Ethnicity and Slavery In the ancient world, slaves were taken simply based upon need or...
and as early as 58bceit served as a departure point in the campaign of the Helvetians and the Romans forGaul. By 379ceGeneva was the seat of a bishop and was within theRoman Empire, but when it had been Christianized and when it became a Roman city are uncertain. After the Germanic ...