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- Roman Empire (59037 bytes)
1: {{Roman Empire infobox}}
3: ...gustan state is conventionally described as the [[Roman Republic]], since the structure of the power in t...
5: ...[Eastern Roman Empire|Eastern]] and the [[Western Roman Empire]]. The end of the Western Empire is tradit...
7: ...gably throughout this article to mean the same as Roman Empire.
9: ... word ''princeps'', meaning "first citizen", the only title Augustus would permit himself) the realiti... - Roman architecture (3399 bytes)
1: ...s it hinders understanding by causing us to judge Roman buildings by Greek standards.
3: ...e-[[dimension]]al counterpart, the [[dome]]. The only two developments of any significance were the Tu...
7: ...and the [[2nd century|second century]] and in the Roman home joined the well known [[mural]] in decoratin...
9: Though most would consider concrete the Roman contribution most relevant to the modern world, t...
23: * [[Roman Forum]] - Roman Forum (4543 bytes)
2: |[[Image:Forum_Romanum_panorama.jpg|thumb|380px|Roman Forum with [[Palatine Hill]] in the background.]]
4: |[[Image:Forum_Romanum_panorama_2.jpg|thumb|380px|From a different vie...
6: ...ge.jpg|thumb|380px|Map of central Rome during the Roman Empire, with '''Forum Holitorium''' and '''Forum ...
9: ...Roman Forum''' ('''Forum Romanum''', although the Romans referred to it more often as the '''Forum Magnum...
11: ...use of urban spaces during the Roman Age. The '''Roman Forum''' includes the following major monuments, ... - History of Greek and Roman Egypt (25856 bytes)
3: ...nian Ptolemies, Egypt was incorporated into the [[Roman Empire]] in [[30 BC]], and was ruled first from [...
12: ...he later Ptolemies were increasingly feeble. The only Ptolemaic Queens to officially rule on their own...
45: ...es was driven out by the Alexandrian mob, but the Romans restored him to power three years later. He died...
47: ...an history merged with the general history of the Roman world, owing to the murder of [[Pompey]] in Egypt...
49: ==Roman Egypt== - Roman road (3913 bytes)
1: [[Image:3392pomP.jpg|thumb|250px|A Roman road in [[Pompeii]]]]
2: ...ues of invasion to the barbarians, contributed to Roman military reverses.
4: The Roman roads vary from simple [[corduroy#corduroy road|c...
6: ... resistance against the Empire. At its peak, the Roman road system spanned 50,000 [[mile]]s.
8: ==Some Roman roads== - Roman law (15349 bytes)
2: ...n]] of Emperor [[Justinian I]] (around [[530]]). Roman law as preserved in Justinian's codes became the ...
4: ...Common law]] owes some debt to Roman law although Roman law exercised much less influence on the English ...
6: ==The history of Roman law in antiquity==
7: ===The Roman Republic===
8: ...xact date for the beginning of the development of Roman law. The first legal text the content of which is... - History of Italy during Roman times (5004 bytes)
2: ...an overview of the '''[[history of Italy]] during Roman times'''.
6: ...s|Tarquinius Superbus]] was overthrown, and the [[Roman Republic]] was formed.
8: ...by two elected [[consul]]s at a time, while the [[Roman Senate|Senate]] (formed by the most notable [[Pat...
13: ...cities in Tuscany and Campania actually asked for Roman protection, rather than confronting with Rome in ...
15: ...n the east. At the end of [[2nd century BC]], the Roman state, having defeated the [[Hellenistic]] kingdo... - Fall of the Western Roman Empire (2775 bytes)
1: ...he last [[Roman Emperors|Emperor]] of the Western Roman Empire was deposed; however there are many other ...
3: ...n his famous book ''[[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]'', but he was not the first, and not the...
8: ...istianity, saying Christianity sapped the will of Roman "civic duty" (that is, military service); and mad...
10: ..., with the roots of Medieval culture contained in Roman culture. This is a gradual process with no clear ...
12: ...with "[[bread and circuses]]" and rulers seeking only to gratify these obsessions. - Roman theatre (952 bytes)
1: ...[Image:Orange roman theatre.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Roman theatre at Orange, France]]
3: ... [[theatre]] building built by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]].
5: ...[Greek theatre]]s, semicircular in form, although Romans tended not to be as concerned about the location...
12: ...]]'s [[World Heritage Site]], together with other Roman buildings of the city
28: * [[Roman architecture]] - Roman clothing (10346 bytes)
6: The Romans used several different types of [[fiber]]s. [[Wo...
11: ...he most pure of all the source fibers) contained only 6% impurities.
13: ...owned for the quality of their wool, although the Romans never ceased trying to optimise the quality of w...
15: .... Silk was rare and expensive; a luxury afforded only to the richest and worn by women. Another type o...
17: The Romans had to turn their material with a manual spinner... - Roman commerce (14626 bytes)
1: ...hile being at the same time part of its backbone. Romans were businessmen and the longevity of their empi...
3: ...d minor uprisings, they gave a distinct flavor to Roman commerce.
5: ... tallying of [[Ancient Roman weights and measures|Roman measures]].
9: ...the side of the road. They were also present near Roman military camps during campaigns, where they sold ...
11: There is some information on the economy of Roman Palestine from Jewish sources of around the 3rd c... - Roman economy (23678 bytes)
2: ... [[Roman Republic]] and the western half of the [[Roman Empire]] consisted of coins including the [[aureu...
4: ...ination]]s, either called [[Greek Imperial]] or [[Roman provincial coins]].
6: ...ze). After the reforms Roman coinage consisted mainly of the gold [[solidus (coin)|solidus]] and small...
10: ...ougsmith.ancients.info/worth.html Buying Power of Roman Coins]</ref>
12: ...the coins with an intrinsic value and those with only a token value. This is reflected in the infreque...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
76: ...a]] as Emperor of Mexico, with support from the [[Roman Catholic]] [[clergy]] and conservative [[Creole]]...
139: ...e than the nation's "free and sovereign states": only since 1997 have its citizens been able to elect ...
161: Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape,...
192: ...xico is predominantly [[Catholic Church in Mexico|Roman Catholic]] (89%), with 6% adhering to various [[P... - Periodic table (7298 bytes)
9: ... IUPAC scheme was developed to replace both older Roman numeral systems as they confusingly used the same...
19: *A table with an [[Periodic table (wide)|inline F-block]] inserts the [[Lanthanide]]s and [[Ac...
51: ...spite their similarities in mass (they differ by only a few [[atomic mass unit]]s), they have extremel... - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ... one on every corner of the building. Also in the Roman period there was a statue atop the tower.
9: ... they could reach shore. However, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflect...
13: ...logical origin of the word 'lighthouse' in many [[Romance languages]], such as [[French language|French]]...
17: ...Egypt]], with its artificial connection to the mainland (the [[Heptastadion]]) forming one side of the... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
35: ... leaves from a downtown station, crosses a former Roman-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in ...
44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
44: ...ce been greatly romanticized in works such as ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]''.
57: *Hirth, Friedrich. 1875. ''China and the Roman Orient''. Shanghai and Hong Kong. Unchanged repri...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: ...ury]] to early [[6th century]], to have been of [[Romano-British]] origin, and to have fought against the...
7: ...ttones," who was active during the reign of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Anthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus...
9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
13: ...bers to this school of thought argue that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aur...
23: ...not necessarily as morally impeccable as in later Romances. According to the ''Life of Saint [[Gildas]]''... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ... read maps as if the distances were calculated in Roman miles (1524 meters or 5,000 feet) rather than [[n...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
23: ...have originated with various ethnic groups in the Roman empire.
33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ... of the great Ionic temples, though it stood for only a decade before an earthquake levelled it, was t...
6: Unlike the Greek Doric order, Ionic [[column]]s norma...
8: ...en when the height of the column was exaggerated. Roman fluting leaves a little of the column surface bet...
10: ...tect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Ro...
12: ...re the Doric order is articulated with triglyphs. Roman and Renaissance practice condensed the height of ... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: Only four playwrights from this period have complete ...
21: ...most important contributions was its influence on Roman comedy, such as the surviving works of [[Plautus]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
7: Secondly, unlike other countries, Chinese belief systems allow ...
46: ... of [[Shangchuan]], without having reached the mainland. In [[1582]], Jesuits once again initiated mis...
52: ...he [[Pope]] and is considered schismatic by other Roman Catholics, have affiliations with government and ...
54: ...s call to preach the gospel across China and the enlargement of the house church movement.
80: ==Mainland China== - May (3270 bytes)
7: ...k god]]dess [[Maia]], who was identified with the Roman [[goddess]] of fertility, [[Bona Dea]], whose fes...
35: ...t of the United States has ever died in May (The only month with no presidential deaths) - June (1973 bytes)
6: The month is named for the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Juno]], wife of Jupiter. In [[Japanes... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...undian government issued arrest warrants for the FNL leaders Agathon Rwasa and Pasteur Habimana, and d...
60: ...otiations are now under way, amid fears that the FNL will demand a blanket amnesty in exchange for lay...
70: ...Ruzizi River]], north of Lake Tanganyika, is the only area below 3,000 ft: this area forms part of the...
74: ...s in Burundi. Although [[Lake Victoria]] is commonly considered to be the source of the Nile, the [[K...
89: ...second highest in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], behind only Rwanda. The Twa are thought to be the original ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
106: *[[Roman Abramovich|Abramovich, Roman]] (born 1966), Russian business oligarch - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
10: *[[Aemilianus]], (circa 207-253), [[Roman Empire|Roman Emperor]]
11: ...audius Aelianus|Aelianus, Claudius]], (died 222), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric - List of people by name: Af (1105 bytes)
17: ...Afranius (poet)|Lucius Afranius]], (died 60 BCE), Roman [[poet]] - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
40: ...rippa|Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius]], (63 BC-12 BC), Roman statesman and general - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
6: ...ll these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
9: ...emy XIII of Egypt|Ptolemy XIII]], who opposed the Roman domination, and [[Ptolemy XIV of Egypt|Ptolemy XI...
13: ... his lover. Egypt remained independent, but three Roman legions were left to protect it. Cleopatra's wint...
21: ...this, when she ordered the second course — only a cup of strong vinegar. She then removed one of...
23: ...orly equipped and manned ships were losing to the Romans' superior vessels, she took flight. Antony aband...
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