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He grew the Empire to over 50 million subjects, and extended the borders from the Black Sea in the North to the Deserts of Africa in the South, and from the Euphrates River in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. After Augustus died the Emperors of Rome would rule the world ...
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Antiochus failed to reckon with the more powerful interests ofRome. In the summer of 168, a Roman ambassador, Popillius Laenas, arrived at Antiochus’s headquarters nearPelusiumin thedeltaand staged an awesome display of Roman power. He ordered Antiochus to withdraw from Egypt. Antiochus asked ...
Occidentalisin the west went toCharles IIthe Bald,Francia Orientalisin the east went toLouis IIthe German, andFrancia Media, including the Italian provinces and Rome, went toLothar, who alsoinheritedthe title of emperor. Subsequent partitions of the three kingdoms, together with the rise of such...
Francia Occidentalis in the west went to Charles II the Bald, Francia Orientalis in the east went to Louis II the German, and Francia Media, including the Italian provinces and Rome, went to Lothar, who also inherited the title of emperor. Subsequent partitions of the three kingdoms, together...
John VIII (1425–48) was a son of Manuel II, and his brother Constantine XI (1449–53) became the last Byzantine emperor. Other brothers were Demetrius and Thomas, despots of the Morea until 1460. Thomas died at Rome in 1465; his daughter Zoë married Ivan III of Russia. Another ...
European interest in ancient Egypt was strong in Roman times and revived in the Renaissance, when the wealth of Egyptian remains in the city of Rome was supplemented by information provided by visitors to Egypt itself. Views of Egypt were dominated by the classical tradition that it was the lan...