The Roman Empire

  The Pax Romana, or “Roman Peace,” was one of the most consequential periods in ancient history. Beginning with the establishment of Augustus’ principate in 27 BCE and conventionally lasting ...

The Roman Empire at its territorial height under Emperor Trajan, around AD 117, encompassed a vast network of provinces stretching from Britain and the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Mediterranean, ...

Roman engineering is often remembered through its surviving successes: the Pantheon, Colosseum, aqueducts, roads, bridges, and monumental harbors. Yet Roman engineering was also defined by projects that proved too ambitious, ...

In July 64 CE, Rome suffered one of the most destructive urban fires in its history. The blaze consumed large sections of the imperial capital, displaced thousands of residents, destroyed ...

By the beginning of the 3rd century BC, Rome had become the dominant power in much of Italy. City after city had fallen under its influence, and the Roman Republic ...

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