Trajan's reign takes Rome one more step toward universality. Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax Romana ends. The death of ...

Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire. But he was stopped by a confederation of Roman soldiers and ...

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

The imperial navy had turned the Mediterranean into a Roman lake, and everywhere around the rim of the empire, Rome’s defeated enemies feared her legions—or so it seemed to optimistic Romans.

For anyone trying to make sense of the situation on the continent, with Emperor Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire, and the pope, Kirsten Claiden-Yardley shed some light. “When Henry VIII declared ...