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Rome: The World's First Superpower is a 2014 Channel 5 television series in 4 episodes narrated by Larry Lamb about the Roman Empire first broadcast in October 2014. [1] The series combined input from historians and CGI to present the history of ancient Rome.
The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced many modern legal systems. Roman history can be divided into the following periods:
After the second Punic war Rome was already one of the biggest empires on the planet but its expansion continued with the invasions of Greece, Asia Minor and later Gaul. By 27 BC Rome had control over half of Europe as well as Northern Africa and large amounts of the Middle East. Rome also had a developed culture, building on the earlier Greek ...
The legacy of the Roman Empire has been varied and significant. The Roman Empire, built upon the legacy of other cultures, has had long-lasting influence with broad geographical reach on a great range of cultural aspects, including state institutions, law, values, religious beliefs, technological advances, engineering and language.
The constitutional history of the Roman Republic began with the revolution that overthrew the monarchy in 509 BC and ended with constitutional reforms that transformed the Republic into what would effectively be the Roman Empire, in 27 BC. The Roman Republic's constitution was a constantly evolving, unwritten set of guidelines and principles ...
In Roman tradition, borrowed from the Greeks, literary theatre was performed by all-male troupes that used face masks with exaggerated facial expressions to portray emotion. Female roles were played by men in drag . [416] Roman literary theatre tradition is represented in Latin literature by the tragedies of Seneca, for example.
536 - Rome is recovered for the Roman Empire by Belisarius. 546 - Rome is sacked by Totila, King of the Ostrogoths. c. 590 - 604 - Pope Gregory the Great makes the Christian church exceedingly strong. 609 - The Pantheon becomes a Christian church. 630 - The Church of Sant' Agnese is the first Roman church to be constructed in Byzantine style.
The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to be the ruler of the Italian region.Roman tradition attributes to the Roman kings the first war against the Sabines and the first conquests around the Alban Hills and down to the coast of Latium.