From emperors and conspiracies to gladiatorial games and daily life—see how well you know the empire that shaped the ancient ...
Trajan's reign takes Rome one more step toward universality. Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax Romana ends. The death of ...
In the end, however, the ruthless act plummeted Rome into further chaos, and out of the disarray, the Roman Empire was born ... varied throughout the history of the Roman Republic, but typically ...
That was the renowned Roman empire, which lasted for about 500 years. So, what caused this mighty empire to crumble into ruins? The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared ...
Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire. But he was stopped by a confederation ...
The reign of the emperor Constantine (306-337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus ... a major reappraisal of this pivotal figure for Roman ...