roman empire

     

The Roman Empire is the phase of the ancient Roman civilisation characterise by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and the Mediterranean. Usually, "Roman Empire" is the term used to describe the Roman state after the establishment of rule by emperors, but is sometimes in non-specialist contexts used more generally to refer to the expansionary Roman state both after and before the time of the first emperor, Augustus. The 500-year-old Roman Republic (509 BC – 1st century BC), which precedes it conceptually, had been weakened by the civil wars of the Late Republic. Losing most of the territory it had acquired at its height between the 4th and 8th century, it continued through major changes until the end of the European Middle Ages, when in 1453 its capital fell to the Ottoman Turks. In its medieval form, it is usually referred to as the Byzantine Empire.

Trivia about roman empire

  • Edward Gibbon published his first volume on its "Decline and Fall", 5 more would follow
  • It's the ancient empire whose forces wore hats like the one seen here
  • The territory of Judea became part of this empire in 63 B.C.
  • Ptolemy XII, Egypt's king for nearly 30 years, used bribery to prevent this empire from annexing the country
  • A freed slave's son, Publius Helvius Pertinax was this empire's ruler for nearly 3 months in 193 A.D.
  • In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire
  • Provence got its name from being this empire's first province beyond the Alps
  • When forces of this empire invaded Britain in 43 A.D., one of the areas they conquered was Hampshire
  • English rationalist historian Edward Gibbon is remembered for his "History of the Decline and Fall of" this
  • 3 legions were massacred in the 9 A.D battle of the Teutoburg Forest; message to this empire: Don't cross the Rhine!
  • Around 106 A.D. Jordan became part of this empire's province of Arabia
  • Around 274 B.C. this republic, which later went full-blown empire, gained dominance over Italy with the defeat of Pyrrhus
  • Dec. 25 may have been chosen to correspond with this empire's Saturnalia rebirth of the sun festival
  • When it was known as Pannonia, Hungary was incorporated into this empire around 14 A.D.
  • In 71 A.D. this empire founded what would become York, then called Eboracum
  • When Armenian king Tigran II was defeated in 66 B.C., his land became part of this empire
  • By the time of Trajan's death in 117 A.D., this empire covered the area seen here
  • The first 3 emperors of this ancient empire were Augustus, Tiberius & Caligula
  • Enslaved in a war in Asia Minor, Alexander Polyhistor tutored a Patrician's kids & was made a citizen of this empire

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