A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten the Fall of the Roman Empire
The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...
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What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?
It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak ... and there is an extensive debate over the extent and length of the Justinianic plague. But, despite this, there are still many ...
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From the Roman Empire to the Roman Catholic Church
When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.
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Emperor Hadrian Brings the World to Rome
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...
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Sculpture of slave boy
Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times, Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by ...
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Why the Roman Empire is suddenly everywhere online
More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...
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Early Christians
The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...