The Roman Empire grew over a long period ... the empire spread through North Africa, through the West all the way through Great Britain, to the East all the way to eastern Syria, and that embraced ...

the Roman Empire—stretching from Britain’s Atlantic Coast in the West all the way to Mesopotamia in the East—wasn’t exactly easy to govern by the late 3 rd century A.D. So, to make things ...

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world profoundly.

Originally, the West was the Catholic Western Roman Empire, with its capital in Rome, while the East was the Eastern Orthodox Roman Empire, centred around Byzantium. Much of the latter was ...

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...