Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome. From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law. The Roman Empire …

The Roman Empire ruled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. The Romans conquered most of this during the Republic, and it was ruled by emperors …

2020年4月27日 · During the life of Jesus, the Roman Empire was vast, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Red Sea in the east — from the Danube River in the north to the Nile …

The Roman writer Seneca is banished to the island of Corsica after he is accused of committing adultery with Claudius's niece Livilla. 41 AD. Livia, the wife of Augustus, is finally deified by the …

The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in AD 476 in the …

It is often written as the 1st century AD or 1st century CE to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or …

The Roman Empire in the First Century provides a detailed look at the emperors of the time as well as other important historical figures.

In the early first century AD a well-to-do Jew from Tarsus in Southern Turkey could be a Roman. But it was not only kings who acquired Roman citizenship. The empire was controlled through …

Rome's story of conquest, at least in Europe and around the Mediterranean, was imitated, but never matched, by leaders from Charlemagne to Napoleon. The dream that one could not only …

Why was the first century so turbulent? The first answer is simple: hereditary rule. For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis of their ability or honesty, but simply...