Roman Empire

roman empire  But emperors and the Senate found this vast empire difficult to rule from the city of Rome In the year 285, it was split into a Western Roman Empire and an The Roman Empire was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by an autocratic form of government It succeeded the 500 year-old Roman Republic

The Roman Empire began in 27 BCE when Augustus became the sole ruler of Rome Augustus and his successors tried to maintain the imagery and language of the Diocletian saw that the vast Roman Empire was ungovernable by a single emperor in the face of internal pressures and military threats on two fronts He

The project records every published type of Roman Imperial Coinage from Augustus in 31 BC, until the death of Zeno in AD 491 This is an easy to use digital In 476 Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome