That being said, the Romans were excellent engineers. If there was one technical thing they did well, at least by ancient standards, it was building. Their structures can still be found scattered around Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa 2000 years after they were built. Roman baths ...
Some 2000 years ago the Roman Empire covered a large part of Europe including the entire coast of the Mediterranean. The transportation network of that empire consisted of roads and sea routes (the two are considered equivalent and simply called roads for this problem). Each road connected exactl...
About 180–185 the “northern” wall according to Dio Cassius, presumably the Antonine Wall, was broken, and the civil war which soon raged in Europe (193–197) for the imperial succession gave the Caledonians the opportunity to ravage the north when its garrison was withdrawn to fight on ...
“northern” wall according toDio Cassius, presumably the Antonine Wall, was broken, and the civil war which soon raged in Europe (193–197) for the imperial succession gave the Caledonians the opportunity to ravage the north when its garrison was withdrawn to fight on the continent. The ...
support the army and provide resources for the construction of infrastructure, such as roads, aqueducts, and public buildings. The Roman economy allowed the empire to finance and maintain a powerful military that could conquer and control territories across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa...
Another advantage of the shading scheme is that the map's authors have turned northern Europe a lush verdant green while the deserts of the south and east look suitably sere and brown. About ten percent of the map is taken up by the Legend and Appendix, written on an appropriately-themed ...
Modern numbers as we know and love them, including the number “0” are a medieval Arabic invention brought to Europe by the mathematician Fibonacci in 1202. After the Roman Empire the Middle East grew to be a great centre of scientific investigation and knowledge and pure mathematics was evide...
Iron age Britain was dominated by one form of man made structure, that being the Roman road. Arguably the two Roman walls: the Antonine wall and Hadrian’s wall looked more impressive to the naked eye and the garrisons that became towns like Lindum and Veronis held large groups of humanity...
Categories: square, tourist attraction, forum, real property, tourist destination, roman ruins and tourism Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe View on OpenStreetMapLatitude41.89241° or 41° 53' 33" north Longitude12.48568° or 12° 29...
Type: Archaeological site Categories: historic site, tourist attraction and tourism Location: Easton Grey, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe View on OpenStreetMapLatitude51.58238° or 51° 34' 57" north Longitude-2.16091° or 2° 9' 39" west ...