of rivers and canals Map reveals how much it would have cost to travel on roads and seas across the empire in 200 CE It calculates the route based on the season, or mode of transport chosen - and ...
When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.
The Cadastre of Orange is an ancient plan that shows the Roman centuriations (land distributions) that extended across the ...
The effective conquest by Rome started in 43 AD. By around 70 AD all of Britain save northern ... tribal sub-kingdoms made part of the Roman Empire through conquest or treaty.
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 ...
He successfully crushed the rebels and, in 70 AD, captured and destroyed the temple ... wisely using this to calm the Roman mob during a time of economic hardship. Death and Domitian Against ...
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, ...
The artifact likely belonged to the Picts, who occupied a large settlement in what is now the town of Burghead Sonja Anderson New research suggests that the Romans defeated the Jewish rebels at ...
The Roman empire began in 27 B.C.E. when Augustus Caesar declared himself as the first Roman emperor. The official date of ...
A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...
“It dates to the fourth century AD and if our team ... was the first Roman emperor to famously convert to Christianity, it would take almost 70 years for Christianity to become the official religion ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in the Roman Empire: the colonate. The colonate involved the fiscal ...