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The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world.

The Atlantic

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The liberal order has collapsed, and the pandemic is revealing why the West needs to speed away from this not-so-golden era.

All About History

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When Julius Caesar entered the Senate House on 15 March 44 BCE, he is said to have done so in good spirits. He had heard the prophecy of the threat against him, but surrounded and supported by his friends, he felt he had nothing to fear. As it happen

History Revealed

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Under Emperor Trajan, Rome’s territory is at its largest – spanning from Iberia to Mesopotamia and from Britain to Egypt A plague is brought to Rome by soldiers returning from the Near East that kills an estimated five million people. Historians beli

History Revealed

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Augustus (formerly known as Octavian) became Rome’s first de facto emperor after the fall of the Roman Republic and the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. The era of Augustus laid the groundwork for roughly 200 years of relative

The Atlantic

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Scientists can finally track the civilization’s economic booms and recessions—thanks to the exhaust of its massive coin-making operation, preserved for centuries in Greenland’s ice sheet.

History Revealed

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Augustus, the great-nephew and heir of Julius Caesar, takes power, becoming Rome’s first emperor and ending the Roman Republic – which had existed for nearly five centuries The conquest of Britain begins. The province of Britannia would be part of t

strategy and business

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Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (Allen Lane, 2018) Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton University Press, 2017) Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of F

Mother Jones

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The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. It’s right there in the name. “Fall” conjures up images of fluted temple columns toppling to the ground, pulled down by fur-clad barbarians straining to destroy something beautiful. Savage inv

History Revealed

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By Dr Philip Matyszak (Michael O'Mara, 2017) What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities – one that was eight times more densely populated than modern-day New York? Philip Matyszak introduces us to the p

The Atlantic

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It’s time to think about the Roman empire again. But not the part of its history that usually commands attention in the United States: the long, sad path of Decline and Fall. It’s what happened later that deserves our curiosity. As a reminder, in 476

History of War

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“ROMAN RIDGE HELMETS WERE NOTICEABLY DIFFERENT IN DESIGN TO THE GALEA, WITH A VAULTED SKULL, A SMALLER NECK GUARD, AN ADDED NOSE GUARD AND CURVED CHEEK GUARDS” The distinctive helmets of Roman soldiers were an iconic symbol of imperial might. Along

History Revealed

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It’s hard to imagine Rome as it began – a small town on the banks of the Tiber, at a best guess founded in 753 BC – such is the lasting shadow it has cast across the world. At its height, the empire that bloomed from the Eternal City boasted some 50

BBC History Magazine

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As Emma Southon points out, we all love a good murder story – and this book is full of poisonings, bludgeonings and beheadings from ancient Rome. Murder, as she says in her conclusion, allows us not only to see the “underbelly” of Rome, away from its

History Revealed

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From tyrannical emperors and imperial expansion, to bathing, beauty and daily brutality, the Ancient Romans continue to fascinate and entertain. But what was it really like to live in Ancient Rome? This month, we’ve teamed up with ancient history exp

BBC History Magazine

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This Roman emperor expanded the army to fight off the Persian menace, and overhauled tax-raising mechanisms in order to pay the bill. He inaugurated a system of detailed censuses that allowed the empire to tax agricultural production effectively. Con

Futurity

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Being a Roman emperor might seem like a cushy gig, but it was a potentially deadly job, according to a new study. “Popular culture associates the lives of Roman emperors with luxury, cruelty, and debauchery, sometimes rightfully so,” writes Joseph H.

Bassmaster

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The ancient Romans had a calendar, but not one where the days were numbered. Instead, lengths of months were determined by counting days based on the full moon. In this regard, the Romans would have been great bass fishermen. As spring arrives, every

BBC History Magazine

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During the 19th-century era of imperialism, the Roman empire was often seen as a model, particularly by the British. The Romans did not represent themselves as aggressors in any of their wars; they had elaborate rituals for ensuring that the gods rec

PC Gamer

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Playing in Ireland became the unofficial way to start Crusader Kings II, and now it’s enshrined as a proper tutorial. Even returning players should consider trying someone like the Duke of Munster in 867, even if they skip the tutorial bits. It’s a g

Artists Magazine

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having dealt with the closing of indoor restaurants and theaters this year, many of us are all the more appreciative of outdoor recreation. We’ve seen everything from dining to spinning classes move into the open. Even drive-in movie theaters have ex

BBC History Magazine

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Rome is, according to legend, founded by the mythical Romulus, also reputedly the first Roman to have a triumph – a sign that the Romans saw themselves as militaristic from the start. The first of three wars against Carthage, the leading power in the

ARCHAEOLOGY

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THE SOUTHERN ITALIAN region of Puglia rolls across seemingly endless hills of golden grain that stretch in every direction. Bordered by the azure waters of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, this area at the heel of Italy is home to the bustling ports of

BBC World Histories Magazine

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Ausonius (c310–c394) was born in Burdigala (Bordeaux), an important port in the Roman province of Aquitaine Gaul. He had a good education, studying Greek and Latin in Bordeaux and Toulouse. In 334, Ausonius became a teacher in Bordeaux. He wrote poet

NPR

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A new book profiles 10 prominent emperors who helped shape the destiny of Rome. Part of their legacy includes wild stories of hedonistic banquets, when luxury ruled even as plebeians went hungry.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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Popular interest in the past is often focused on the political or spiritual centers of ancient cultures—capitals such as Rome or Teotihuacan, for example, or the religious complexes at Saqqara in Egypt or on the Acropolis in Athens. But outside those

Muse

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About 1,700 years ago, the Roman Empire was under attack, and Emperor Constantine had to decide where to station his diminished forces. Constantine organized his legions into four field armies. He needed to protect eight regions with these forces. Th

Country Life

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WE Brits like to think that we’re civilised, but we enjoyed the blood and gore of the amphitheatre as much as the rest of the Roman Empire, says English Heritage (EH). Last week, EH announced its plans to excavate the Roman amphitheatre at Richboroug

Handwoven

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FROM WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S Antony and Cleopatra to the more modern Mummy franchise, popular culture has long been obsessed with ancient Egypt. The history and art of medieval Egypt, on the other hand, is perhaps less well-known. For those curious abo

Manhattan Institute

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Civis Romanus sum: “I am a Roman citizen!” Two thousand years ago, those words protected one throughout the Roman Empire, imposing strict limits on the punishments that public authorities might inflict. Today, we’re seeing a powerful conflict between