Roman Empire
The Roman empire spanned throughout Europe and Northern Africa. It stood from 44 BC to 286 AD. The Roman empire witnessed the time of the gladiator as well as a significant shift in religious views.
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Ancaster, Doncaster, Lancaster, Tadcaster.
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They wore greaves (leg armour), a helmet, sandals, and leather clothe. Carried a gladius (straight sward) and and scutum...
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Put a halt to trade, wasn't safe to move goods from one place to another, the decline in trade made some cities non important,...
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The word "maximus" is the superlative form of the word "magnus", which means "great". Therefore maximus means "the greatest" or...
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at the time julius caesar had a country who was at the top , the roman empire was feared and with julius caesar's brains, plus...
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It became the undisputed power in the Western Mediterranean, and in the aftermath of the Second Punic War, decided to punish...
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Julius Caesar's most famous military campaigns were in the territory known in ancient times as Gaul.Today it is much of present...
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ancient rome was sucsees ful becuz they hd mighty warriors. The warriors became "mighty" due to their superior training, weapons,...
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The three time periods of ancient Rome were the monarchy, the republic and the principate.
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Not really. Some Christian traditions come from pagan traditions (e g the Romans' Saturnalia corresponds to Christmas), but the...
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http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/WestEurope/GermanicTribes.html
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The influential reform that is attributed to Gaius Marius was the soldiers would be rewarded with a piece of land to settle on...
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Although the Romans were not particularly known as a seafaring people, they did manage to have a strong navy. They won naval...
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1: 33 times. According Octavius in the play by Shakespeare (Act V Scene 1), Julius Caesar was stabbed 33 times. Answer 2:...
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ashtrays, vase, fruit bowl, top of a wooden stool, bathroom tiles, inlaid around the edges of tabletops, edges of mirrors,...
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No, American law is only based on some concepts of Roman law. American law is more closely and largely based on English law....
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The early Romans formed a republic to escape the tyranny of a king. They wanted to be in control of their own government and...
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Basically it was a monarchy, although he disguised the fact by referring to himself as simply the first citizen. He kept the...
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The Romans spoke Latin. Rome is Roma in Latin.
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Today there are no statues in the Colosseum. Originally there were statues in all the niches, but they were all vandalized or...
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A scriptor, auctor or scriba.
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The art of the fresco is purely Roman. The playwrights, historians, poets, and biographers all contributed. The Romans developed...
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The second triumvirate never really got along. Antony and Octavian clashed from the minute Octavian entered Rome to claim his...
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The Romans would go to a baths to get clean and socialize.
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they must have got their workers very easily as the workers are of low castes and must have served the higher castes.
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For one, gladiators never really fought lions. Lions were used either as a means of execution, or more commonly to be shown off...
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He set rome on fire. Or at least that is the erroneous popular notion. Serious historians doubt that he had anything to do with...
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No one knows who killed Spartacus's' wife or how she died. In fact no one even knows her name. She remains one of "history's...
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Constanine had to overcome a system we call the tetrarchy, where the roman empire was ruled by 4 emperors, Constantine was one of...
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Yes. The dome is a vault or vaulted ceiling.
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Because he just was!
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Retirement from the Roman army was not a matter of age, it was a matter of service. When a man's enlistment time was up he could...
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Your question will probably never be firmly answered because there is controversy over what the bathing attire (or lack of it)...
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The gladiators were definitely looked upon as great people, despite their humble beginnings, with some being prisoners of war,...
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The First Holy Roman Emperor The first Roman Emperor to convert to or adopt Christianity was Constantine.
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The Roman Empires would compete with each other politically (e.g., assassinations, espionage, etc), militarily (i.e., their...
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There was no real concept of an afterlife. Hades was like a piece of blotting paper. However mystery religions involved a...
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There were 60 conspirators, led by Brutus, of which at least 23 stabbed him. Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus, Cassius,...
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Poor Romans usually ate food that they were able to grow like onions. The poorest of the Romans would eat porridge and bread for...
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Well there were no Roman newspapers (no printing presses for another 1,500 years). They had to use other means of getting the...
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Yes. Octavianus Augustus Caesar died on August 19, in the year 14 AD ,years after Jesus' birth.
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Diocletian thought Rome was to big for one man to rule. His solution was to split the city into an eastern half and a western...
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Romans used their sweat to created steam that react to the kabodimo machine which forced out water that is used by romans.
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he banished his daughter to an island near Rhegium because of her licentious behaviour and when she died there, would allow no...
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Technically there was no difference. The Roman republic was an empire. As soon as Rome expanded and governed territories under...
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Depends how you define king ior emperor. In any group of people a leader usually emerges, and that is particularly true of...
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In 313, Constantine (or Saint Constantine in some Churches) out-lawed it. He did some pagan things during his reign but was...
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Expanding to the west Recapturing lost Roman lands Returning Rome to its former glory
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The emperor sat in the imperial box at the Colosseum or at any other arena or circus. This was a spacious area with room for the...
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Londinium.London used to be called Londinium.
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She is a character from the book Chasing Vermeer. (by Blue Balliett) She has triangular dark, brown, curly hair and is a little...
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The roman population was mostly Christian and the bloody sports in the Colosseum did not follow the Christian beliefs.So...
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They copied some stuff but not the complete culture. Answer:More accurately, they assimilated Greek culture as Greece became...
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Down through the years poor old Nero has been the object of malice from the ancient writers to Hollywood producers. Now he did do...
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Rome's acsendency in the Eastern Mediterranean was partly due to the victory in the Punic wars because afterwards Rome waged war...
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In the center is Neptune or some say Oceanus, who are both the God of the Sea. The other two figures on either side are Tritons,...
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Marcus Brutus was raised by his uncle Cato the young. Cato was not rich him self but became rich when he married a wealthy widow....
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Nero was an evil man. He feared his mother had too much power so he had her killed. The first attempt was poison, but this did...
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Nope, Romans originate in Rome ^^
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The Carthaginian army entered from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps and into northern Italy .
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the roman army was powerful due to its superior organisation advanced technology and a huge empire to supply it with troops
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The Romans destroyed Carthage in 146 BC.
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Brutus never ruled, at least not in Rome. He stole a governorship and that's the closest he came to being a ruler.
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Some of the values of the Romans, during the republic and afterwards, were the value and custom of formal friendship, amicitas,...
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The Romans built most of their aqueducts underground because that was the most practical and efficient way to move the water....
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The Silk Roads? Yes, in the later empire the Romans had contact with merchants who used the silk road. However they promoted...
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There were many great Roman legacies but some include the arch, the republic, Roman numerals, and Latin prefixes and proverbs.
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From Augustus (the first emperor) to the division of the Empire into Eastern and Western Empires in A.D. 395 there were 147 Roman...
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After witnessing an image of the crucified Jesus Christ in the sky, at least according to later Christian propaganda, Emperor...
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The Mob was the most influencial force in Julius Caesar. Whoever controlled them controlled all of Rome.
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Romans used Roman numerals as their form of numbers. Romans needed Roman Numerals because they needed numbers to count, tell...
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Jesus Christ started the Christian Church and through his apostles Christianity spread across the Roman world and into Asia....
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The Romans are the ones who created London, so basically they actually left the whole city London for us. (Well maybe not for us,...
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The Romans created and built roads(all leading to Rome) and Spread Roman culture to many places.
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The Romans adopted most of their gods from the ancient Greeks but gave them Roman names. Greece's Zeus, for example, became...
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It is widely accepted that Constantine was the first.
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The tribunes were the elected officials who represented the interests of the plebeians.
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a better answer would be because they were good at: recruitment training discipline tactics communication forts what wepons...
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even the highest class of Romans liked seeing people slaughtered in amphitheatres and other things to do with blood and guts...
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There is no real evidence of the Romans persecuting Christians before at least 97 CE, and only sporadic periods of persecution...
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East of Cyprus and Sidon and Northeast of Jerusalem.
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The eastern part of the empire was centered on Constantinople and was richer than the western portion. It sat on the trade route...
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The Romans occupied Somerset in about AD 47 and the county remained part of the Roman Empire for another 400 years. Their most...
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There was no Roman officer in command of 100 men. There is a misconception that a centurion commanded 100 men, but this is false....
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On the 27th of February in the year 380, Emperor Theodosius I made Nicene Christianity the official state religion of Rome and...
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The Greek civilization came before the Roman.
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u must have lee if u don't ignore lol It will be unequal relationship. One side, you have world's first superpower that...
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because he was a general of roman army along the German frontier.
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Constantine moved the capital to Byzantium which he rebuilt and renamed Constantinople after himself.
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They invented the government type called democracy. Democracy is the form of government the U.S.A. uses today. Democracy is when...
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The Roman Empire has been affecting us in a lot of different ways. They have created a form of government called a democracy.
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As Troy crumbles and falls, Aeneas carries his elderly father on his shoulders through enemy spears and the fires of the falling...
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Justinian
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You should for your own comfort and the people you come in contact with after your exercise would appreciate it also.
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First of all, by giving state patronage to only one branch of Christianity, the Catholic-Orthodox Church, and implicitly ensuring...
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