By this time, the Roman Empire was centered in Constantinople in the east, and even Western Roman emperors lived in Milan (then called Mediolanum) or Ravenna in northern Italy. But Rome was the ...

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

Yet for centuries, Western Europeans remained selectively ... despite the endurance of a real holy Roman empire to the east. They were abetted by the Latin churchmen who forged the Donation ...

and the empire permanently split into two separate states in A.D. 395 — one in the east, and one in the west. But why did the Roman Empire divide into the Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman ...

After centuries of conquests, the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD. But what led to its downfall? The military conquests of ancient Rome, including the conquest of Italy and the Punic Wars ...

Merchants from both East and West were soon taking advantage ... They sent the ships back to India laden with wine and other Western goods. During Roman rule, the traffic was intense: Up to ...

Constantine's east-west unity of the Mediterranean world ... was shipped out in 476 by the German Sciri tribe—and the Western Roman Empire was no longer. Then came the Arabs roaring out of ...

by Tom Holland The Roman Empire, an enormous multiethnic state that controlled Western and Central Europe, the Near East and portions of North Africa for 500 years, has been on some people’s ...

He documented 116 ancient Roman forts spanning what is now western Syria to northwestern ... first formal archaeological surveys in the Near East and long before there had been any theoretical ...