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From:Gale World History Online CollectionAncient Rome grew from settlements near the Tiber River to become one of the greatest empires of the ancient world. It did so through a process of assimilation and adaptation. While Romans were well-known for conquest,...
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From:Historic World EventsThe great masterpieces of ancient Roman literature were written in both poetry and prose in forms as diverse as moral treatises, letters, and epic stories. The works spanned a wide range of genres, including satire and...
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From:Historic World EventsSlavery was an institution in Ancient Roman society. Although slave populations vary according to the time period and region, historical evidence indicates that a substantial number of slaves were present in Roman...
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From:Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History (Vol. 4: Europe. )In 59 bce Julius Caesar (100–44 bce), a well-educated member of the elite class of Romans, became consul, assuming the highest elected office in the Roman Republic. He rose to become one of the greatest leaders in the...
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From:Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History (Vol. 1: Africa. )During ancient times, the Phoenicians resided in the eastern regions of the Mediterranean, predominantly in present-day Lebanon and Syria. They were a seafaring people and enjoyed great success in maritime commerce and...
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From:Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History (Vol. 1: Africa. )During the third and second centuries bce, two great powers contended for domination of the western Mediterranean region. The oldest of these powers was Carthage, a city-state located near present-day Tunis, Tunisia....
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From:Historic World EventsFar from being an obscure discipline confined to remote sites and museums, archaeology has had a significant impact upon everyday human society since its earliest inception. Throughout history, the field of archaeology...
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From:Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History (Vol. 5: Middle East. )When the Roman Empire conquered Judea in 63 bce, the Jews who lived there had already experienced a long history of conquest. A dynastic disagreement caused the Kingdom of Israel to split into two, forming the Kingdom of...
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From:Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History (Vol. 5: Middle East. )By the time the Romans conquered Judea in the first century bce, the Jews had already experienced considerable conquest and subjugation. Internal disputes caused the breakup of their once-great kingdom in the tenth...
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From:Historic World EventsKey Figures Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus served as consul in 205 b.c.e. at the young age of thirty-one after defeating Hannibal. After the cursus honorum was established, no longer were consuls legally allowed to...
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From:Historic World EventsThe founding of an Eastern Roman Capital Key Figure Constantine, Roman emperor from 324 to 337. Summary of Event Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (c. 280-337) has been immortalized in history for his three...
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From:Historic World EventsThe Byzantine Empire, which flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth century c.e. as the surviving eastern half of the Roman Empire, is considered the high point of European culture and sophistication. As the empire...
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From:Macmillan Encyclopedia of World SlaveryThe Familia Caesaris in imperial Rome, in its broadest sense, included all the emperor's slaves and ex-slaves. Literary sources and even epitaphs represent only the upper tiers of this group. The life of a slave working...
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From:Dictionary of the Middle AgesAlani, an Indo-Iranian nomadic people who moved across central Asia into the south Russian steppes. The earliest extant written notice of their existence in the West comes from the Latin author Seneca. Until the later...
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From:Macmillan Encyclopedia of World SlaveryTorture, legally speaking, refers to judicial investigation--the discovery of evidence--rather than to the forcing of a confession, and still less to punishment. The Latin quaestio and the English "putting to the...
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From:Dictionary of the Middle AgesThe Roman emperors, from Augustine onward, sat regularly with an advisory committee known as the consilium principis. Diocletian, however, required members to stand (consistere) in his presence. The imperial cabinet was...
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From:Macmillan Encyclopedia of World SlaveryIn Roman legal theory there was no such thing as an elite slave. "There are many classes of free men but men are either free or slave," as Justinian said (Institutes 1.3.5). There were in fact certain legal differences,...
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From:Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and RomeIn 1879, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his friend the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy on the peculiar nexus of taxes and governments, even new ones such as the United States of America: "Our Constitution is in actual...
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From:Science and Its TimesOverview The Roman Empire was, until the peak of the British Empire, the mightiest empire the world had ever known. At its peak it dominated virtually all of Europe, part of Africa, and most of the Middle East. One of...
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From:Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and RomeDiplomacy and interstate relations in Greece and Rome were characterized by one basic principle: the demarcation between diplomacy and foreign policy was not quite clear because there was no separation of powers within...