98-117 AD - Trajan reigns. 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 ...

That was the renowned Roman empire, which lasted for ... England in 117 C.E. brought enslaved people to the empire. They worked in the fields and as craftsmen. But when the empire stopped expanding by ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

However, Roman tactlessness and inefficiency, along with famine and internal squabbles, led to a rise in Jewish discontent. In 66 AD, this discontent exploded into open rebellion. Four years later ...

This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of inscriptions from the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying explanatory notes, ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest of the world ... Military bases were often ad hoc installations set up to watch rivers and other key supply ...

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The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...

At the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the ...

Those who enjoy the history of the Roman Empire are well acquainted with the story of Antinous, the young man of ...