“Carpe
diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the
fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. ”
Horace
Ancient Rome
North Africa
Ancient
Rome was a thriving
civilization
that grew on the
Italian Peninsula
as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the
Mediterranean Sea
and centered on the city of
Rome , it
expanded to become one of the largest
empires
in the
ancient world . In its
centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a
monarchy to an
aristocratic
republic to an increasingly
autocratic
empire . It came to dominate
Southern Europe ,
Western Europe ,
Balkans ,
Asia Minor ,
North Africa and parts of
Eastern Europe through
conquest and
assimilation . Rome was preponderant
throughout the Mediterranean region, and was the sole superpower
of
Antiquity . Rome was the central
power of Antiquity. The Romans are still remembered today,
including such names as
Julius Caesar ,
Cicero , and
Horace . Roman culture and history
has been praised by great thinkers and
philosophers such as
Machiavelli ,
Rousseau and
Nietzsche . A society highly
developed in military and political skills, Rome
professionalized its military class and created a system of
government called res
publica , the inspiration for some modern
republics such as the
United States and
France . By the end of the
Republic , Rome had conquered the
lands around the Mediterranean and beyond: its domain extended
from the Atlantic to
Judaea and from the mouth of the
Rhine to North Africa. In the
Empire , Rome entered in its golden
times at the hands of
Augustus Caesar . Under
Trajan , the Empire reached its
territorial peak. The republican values started to decline in
the imperial times, and civil wars became the common ritual for
a new emperor's rise.
Plagued by internal instability and
attacked by various migrating peoples ,
the
western part of the empire broke up
into independent kingdoms in the 5th century. This splintering
is a landmark historians use to divide the
ancient period of
universal history from the
medieval era (" Dark
Ages " of Europe)."
Source:
Wikipedia
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