Other Roman rulers sought to expand the empire during their reign.Emperor Trajan (r. A.D. 98 to 117) launched an ambitious attempt to expand the Roman Empire, conquering Dacia, a territory located ...

Imagine an advanced civilization filled with architectural wonders and military power that once spanned vast territories ...

I told my wife I probably think about the Roman Empire once a day, ... Men need not pine for the days of Rome to admire the masculinity of leaders, such as Julius Caesar and Scipio Africanus.

The vast Roman Empire split into the Eastern Roman Empire and Western ... the empire reunited when Constantine I defeated his co-rulers in A.D. 324. But the empire was again divided upon ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...

At its height in 117 AD, the Roman Empire covered 40 modern nations and 5 million square km. Sea crossings aside, you could walk from northern Britain to the Persian Gulf and have never left the ...

The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it. The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to ...

In this hall we have the true celebrity, the emperor and the empress of the Roman Empire. They weren't just the leaders of the Roman Empire, they were also the trendsetters.

The Roman Empire existed for approximately 500 years, ... The research team also noted that leaders during the Roman Empire relied on local officials to manage their conquests, ...