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...How often do you think about the Roman empire?...
...Like the Greens and Blues of the ancient eastern Roman empire — the Greens representing monophysitism and the lower classes and the Blues representing orthodoxy and the upper classes — American politicians...
...Instead, rather anticlimactically, “Things were changing in the western Roman provinces, leading to different ways of life and government”, and the locus of empire was shifting eastward to Constantinople...
...“Historians have established that the term ‘pothole’ comes from the age of the Roman empire,” it noted....
...“It’s an important witness of the phenomenon of the capture of animals in the late Roman empire. These animals were used for venationes [public shows] in Rome,” says Barresi....
...The Golden Road, a new book by William Dalrymple coming out in September, focuses on the ancient maritime highway linking the Roman empire and India in the 1st and 2nd century CE through the Red Sea....
...Roman pines grow fast and, thanks to the added property of being water-resistant because of their resin, they quickly became a key input of the empire’s maritime fleet....
...And so it was that the Roman republic died and the empire was born and endured....
...Our road trip is the celebratory finale of a string of journeys that has seen Barnaby and Don winding through the remotest corners of the eastern Roman empire: through Turkey, north Africa and the Levant...
...I read Jo Ellison’s column on history’s most popular civilisation (“What is it about men and the Roman empire?”, Opinion, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, September 23) with obvious joy....
...Certainly, there were many Romans with dark skin, and the Roman empire had many encounters with other nations and empires ruled by people we would now class as “black”....
...The India that traded extensively with Rome, whose pepper was prized all over the empire, is in a separate building in another part of Paris. Not part of our story....
...The most immediate cause of the fall of the Roman empire in the west was neither the usual culprits of Christianity (see Gibbon) nor migration (see any rightwing commentator over the past 20 years)....
...The Transfiguration Cathedral was originally built in the early 1800s to be the main church in southern areas of Ukraine conquered by the Russian empire and designated “New Russia” — a term Russian president...
...Faced with this, what can we learn from the Roman empire’s own fall from “dizzying power to disintegration”?...
...But they are a modern confection, invented by 19th-century scholars to emphasise the superiority of their own nations and the justice of their empires....
...“[Loewe creative director] Jonathan Anderson is my Roman Empire,” says Coopoo, in reference to the social media meme. “He’s so adventurous and courageous.”...
...Fifty miles north of what is now Edinburgh and nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman empire’s Twentieth Legion began to build a fort near the River Tay....
...So said some ancient sources — but other writers in Roman times pointed to Etruria....
...Finishing with an excellent tiramisu with enough dusted cocoa to make me sneeze several times, and a rousingly strong macchiato, it was the perfect Roman lunch....
...Here was my excuse to learn the names of kings, queens and prime ministers; the sweep of the Roman empire; where Wyoming is on a US map....
...Men spend a lot of time thinking about the Roman empire, a TikTok trend recently revealed. For the economist Guy Standing, it’s not Rome but Athens....
...‘Gaza has been for centuries the threshold on which empires ruling the Middle East could conquer Egypt — and vice versa’— Professor Jean-Pierre Filiu The Turkish Ottoman empire held Gaza for several hundred...
...“There are no longer any world empires to keep order. The Assyrian, Roman, Persian, Byzantine, Ottoman, British, Soviet, and American empires are gone from the region,” he writes....
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