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    Roman Civilization

    • It became one of the largest empires in the ancient world.


    • Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural
    community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC.
    • Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to an
    increasingly autocratic empire.
    • The Roman civilization started along the Tiber River, in the west of Italy
    • Ancient Rome commanded a vast area of land, with tremendous natural
    and human resources.
    • Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient
    Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome.
    • Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development
    of law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology, religion,
    and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major
    influence on the world today.
    • With the rise of the Roman political power the Latin language became
    popular.
    • Roman society is largely viewed as hierarchical, with slaves (servi) at the
    bottom, freedmen (liberti) above them, and free-born citizens (cives) at the
    top.
    • The primary aim of education during this period was to train young men
    in agriculture, warfare, Roman traditions, and public affairs.
    • Sometime around 1st millennium BC some other tribe, probably from the
    eastern Mediterranean side, came and settled in Etruria (now Toscana or
    Tuscany) on the northwestern side of the river Tiber and These people were
    called the Etruscans.
    • They promoted trade and gave the idea of the citizen assembly. Under
    their rule, Rome grew into a prosperous city.
    • Portrait sculpture during the period utilized youthful and classical
    proportions, evolving later into a mixture of realism and idealism.
    • The Romans expanded their empire, gained full control over the
    Mediterranean coasts up to Spain, and conquered Greece and Macedonia by
    140 BC.
    • Julius Caesar became the sole ruler of the Roman Empire by pushing off
    the others; but he was assassinated by a group of Republican aristocrats in
    44 BC.
    • Octavian (heir of Julius Caesar) took over the reign with the alliance of two
    more army officers including Mark Anthony who fell in love with Cleopatra
    (the Queen of Egypt).
    • The Roman Empire reached its height between 100 to 180 AD in power and
    prosperity and all of the neighboring countries of the Mediterranean
    including Jerusalem were under its regime.
    • There was a period of chaos in the emperorship between 235 to 286 AD
    when any powerful person or officer could seize the power by force and
    overthrow his rival.
    • Roman Empire was split into two sections, Eastern and Western, with
    separate emperorships For the convenience of administration the.
    • They also introduced a calendar around 738 BC that had only 10 months in
    a year, and a year had only 304 days.
    • In 80 AD, they built a four story open amphitheater in Rome with a 50,000
    seating capacity, called the Colosseum.
    • Before 300 AD, in the Roman empire, most of the people worshipped a
    number of traditional gods and goddesses like: Jupiter, Juno, Pluto, Bacchus,
    Diana and Venus, etc.
    • In 313 AD Constantine I accepted the Christian religion and since then
    Christianity flourished.
    • When Theodosius died in 395 AD, the Roman Empire was permanently split
    into two Empires, East and West, and Christianity was accepted as their state
    religion.
    • Thus, in 509 BC the Romans took over the rule of Rome by throwing out
    the last king of the Etruscans and started the Roman Republic

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