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Roman times


00:03:25 1 Founding myth
00:06:05 2 Kingdom
00:07:17 3 Republic
00:09:58 3.1 Punic Wars
00:14:37 4 Late Republic
00:16:28 4.1 Marius and Sulla
00:19:48 4.2 Caesar and the First Triumvirate
00:23:06 4.3 Octavian and the Second Triumvirate
00:26:07 5 Empire – the Principate
00:26:52 5.1 Julio-Claudian dynasty
00:27:44 5.1.1 Augustus
00:30:12 5.1.2 From Tiberius to Nero
00:32:56 5.2 Flavian dynasty
00:33:31 5.2.1 Vespasian
00:34:44 5.2.2 Titus and Domitian
00:36:09 5.3 Nerva–Antonine dynasty
00:37:11 5.3.1 Trajan
00:40:03 5.3.2 From Hadrian to Commodus
00:43:00 5.4 Severan dynasty
00:44:24 5.4.1 Septimius Severus
00:46:04 5.4.2 From Caracalla to Alexander Severus
00:49:01 5.5 Crisis of the Third Century
00:51:08 6 Empire – the Dominate
00:51:18 6.1 Diocletian
00:53:04 6.2 Constantine and Christianity
00:54:46 7 Fall of the Western Roman Empire
00:59:52 8 Society
01:00:50 8.1 Class structure
01:04:04 8.2 Family
01:06:51 8.3 Education
01:08:37 8.4 Government
01:12:07 8.5 Law
01:13:35 8.6 Economy
01:16:48 8.7 Military
01:26:56 9 Culture
01:28:11 9.1 Language
01:29:27 9.2 Religion
01:31:36 9.3 Art, music and literature
01:34:38 9.4 Cuisine
01:35:19 9.5 Games and recreation
01:38:15 9.6 Ethics and morality
01:40:01 10 Technology
01:44:25 11 Legacy
01:44:59 12 Historiography
01:45:29 12.1 In Roman times
01:46:58 12.2 In modern times
01:49:27 13 See also



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In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
The civilization began as an Italic settlement in the Italian peninsula, dating from the 8th century BC, that grew into the city of Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire over which it ruled and to the widespread civilisation the empire developed. The Roman empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, though still ruled from the city, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population) and covering 5.0 million square kilometres at its height in AD 117.In its many centuries of existence, the Roman state evolved from a monarchy to a Classical Republic and then to an increasingly autocratic empire. Through conquest and assimilation, it eventually dominated the Mediterranean region, Western Europe, Asia Minor, North Africa, and parts of Northern and Eastern Europe. It is often grouped into classical antiquity together with ancient Greece, and their similar cultures and societies are known as the Greco-Roman world.
Ancient Roman civilisation has contributed to modern government, law, politics, engineering, art, literature, architecture, technology, warfare, religion, language, and society. Rome professionalised and expanded its military and created a system of government called res publica, the inspiration for modern republics such as the United States and France. It achieved impressive technological and architectural feats, such as the construction of an extensive system of aqueducts and roads, as well as the construction of large monuments, palaces, and public facilities.
By the end of the Republic (27 BC), Rome had conquered the lands around the Mediterranean and beyond: its domain extended from the Atlantic to Arabia and from the mouth of the Rhine to North Africa. The Roman Empire emerged with the end of the Republic and the dictatorship of Augustus Caesar. 721 years of Roman-Persian Wars started in 92 BC with their first war against Parthia. It would become the longest conflict in human history, and have major lasting effects and consequences for both empires. Under Trajan, the Empire reached its territorial peak. Republican mores and traditions started to decline during the imperial period, with civil wars becoming a prelude common to the rise of a new e ...