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 ...

Following the initial invasion of Britain, the Roman emperor, Claudius, arrived to symbolically lead his army to victory. In August, the Romans captured Camulodunum (Colchester), the capital of ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire. But he was stopped by a confederation ...

Between 6 B.C. and A.D. 4, Roman legions established ... Rome itself and halted the empire’s conquest of Germany. “This was a battle that changed the course of history,” says Peter S.

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 ...

A new, and innovative chronological overview of Roman history, the volumes noted here are the first of what seems likely to be a four or five volume set. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is ...