Trajan held onto power until 117 AD. His civilized rule set the tone for future generations; his expansion of the Roman Empire made it a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic melting pot that is still ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Well, at that time all these places were part of the Roman Empire. An empire is a group of ... a coin from the time of Emperor Trajan (53 - 117 CE). The coin leads Julia to consider the size ...