Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
At its territorial peak in the year 117, the Roman Empire controlled approximately 5,000,000 km 2 (1,900,000 sq mi) of land surface. [39] [34] After Trajans reign the Empire continued to grow stronger until the reign of Marcus Aurelius. [40] After the death of Marcus Aurelius his son, Commodus would take power. The reign of Commodus marked the ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
While the Roman Empire and Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476. Gradually however, the Christian religion re-asserted its influence over Western Europe.
Odoacer deposes the Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus: Considered by some historians to be the starting point of the Middle Ages. 480: 25 April: Death of Julius Nepos, last Roman Emperor to be recognized as such by the Roman Senate and the Byzantine Empire: Considered by some historians to be the starting point of the Middle Ages. 493: 15 March
This is a timeline of Roman history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom and Republic and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire .
The new form of government was a personal one, based on powers of, and relationships between, individuals, rather than the heavily administrated, judicial and bureaucratic system of the Romans. [60] The time of the barbarian kingdoms came to an end with the coronation of Charlemagne , king of the Franks , as Roman emperor by Pope Leo III in 800 ...
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
The Roman provinces of Gaul, Britain and Hispania broke off to form the Gallic Empire and, two years later in 260, the eastern provinces of Syria, Palestine and Aegyptus became independent as the Palmyrene Empire, leaving the remaining Italian-centred Roman Empire-proper in the middle.