Both Uses
Roman Empire
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The Mill on the Floss
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- I can read the back of this,—'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'†
Chpt 2.1Roman Empire = Rome between the absolute rule of Augustus (27 BC) and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD)
- He had really been brighter, and had got through his lessons better, since she had been there; and she had asked Mr. Stelling so many questions about the Roman Empire, and whether there really ever was a man who said, in Latin, "I would not buy it for a farthing or a rotten nut," or whether that had only been turned into Latin, that Tom had actually come to a dim understanding of the fact that there had once been people upon the earth who were so fortunate as to know Latin without learning it through the medium of the Eton Grammar.†
Chpt 2.1 *
Definitions:
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(Roman Empire) an ancient civilization centered on the city of Rome that grew into a powerful empire ruling much of the Mediterranean worldPeriods of Ancient Rome
The Roman Kingdom (753–509 BCE): from the traditional founding of the city of Rome until the last king was overthrown.
The Roman Republic (509–27 BCE): Rome was led by elected officials and a senate, with limits on the power of any one ruler.
The Roman Empire (27 BCE–476 AD in the West): began when Augustus took on imperial powers; in Western Europe it is usually said to end in 476 AD, when the last Western emperor was dethroned.
Western and Eastern Roman Empires: By the late 300s, the empire was commonly ruled from two courts, one in the West and one in the East. In 395 AD, after Emperor Theodosius I died, he left the Western Roman Empire to one son and the Eastern Roman Empire to another. The Eastern Roman Empire is often called the Byzantine Empire (after the old name of its capital, Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople).
The city of Rome was sacked in 410, and many historians think of the Western Roman Empire as ending in 476, when a Germanic general deposed the last Western emperor.
The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire survived nearly a thousand years longer, until the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)