who were the romans? How many years did their empire last(from wat year to wat year)?
thnx!!!
2006-11-21 07:13:55 · 3 answers · asked by MARGARITA F 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
free, I totally hear you on this one. I didn't mean anything smart about my answer from before.
my dear boy, go to wikipedia and type in Roman empire. you'll get the exact same info as here, and it's just as fast.
2006-11-21 07:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by cirque de lune 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are over 400 questions on Yahoo Answers about the Romans, including almost exactly the question you just asked.
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2006-11-21 15:18:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the romans where a civilization that toke place
753 Foundation of Rome Iron Age huts on Palatine hill
c.600 Forum area drained
Earliest Latin inscriptions
616-579 Tarquinius Priscus
579-543 Servius Tullius
543-509 Tarquinius Superbus
Capitoline temple built
Period: The Republic, 509 BC to 27 BC
Political and military events Cultural and other events
509 Expulsion of the Kings
494 Plebeians struggle with patricians for rights More temples built
450 First law code: Twelve Tables
390 Rome sacked by Gauls
378 City wall built
Romanisation of Italy
338 Extension of Roman citizenship
312 Appian Way built
287 End of struggle with patricians
c.280 Coinage begins
272 Rome wins control of whole of Italy
264-241 First Punic War (against Carthage): Rome wins Sicily 264 First gladiatorial games
218-201 Second Punic War: Hannibal defeated; 206 Spain becomes two Roman provinces
214-167 Macedonian Wars Hellenisation of Roman society; comedies of Plautus and Terence; poetry of Ennius
197-133 Wars in Spain
149-146 Third Punic War: Carthage destroyed, Africa becomes Roman province
148 Macedonia becomes Roman province
133 Asia becomes Roman province; land reforms of Tiberius Gracchus
123-122 Laws of Gaius Gracchus
113-101 War against Cimbri
107-86 Seven consulships of Marius; 104 army reforms
91-87 Social War; Roman citizenship extended to all Italy
88-85 First Mithridatic War
82-81 Dictatorship of Sulla: proscriptions, reforms; rise of Pompey
73-71 Revolt of Spartacus
73-63 Third Mithridatic War
63 Consulship of Cicero; conspiracy of Catiline
60 'First triumvirate' (Pompey, Caesar, Crassus)
58-50 Caesar conquers Gaul; 55, 54 expeditions to Britain Speeches, treatises and letters of Cicero; poetry of Catullus and Lucretius; histories of Caesar; 55 Pompey's theatre
49-45 Caesar wins civil war against Pompey and republicans
46 Caesar's forum
44 Caesar dictator for life; assassinated
43 'Second triumvirate' (Antony, Octavian, Lepidus); proscriptions, murder of Cicero
c.39 Histories of Sallust
Virgil's Eclogues
32-31 Octavian wins civil war against Mark Antony; 31 Actium
30 Death of Antony
29 Virgil's Georgics
Period: The Empire, 27 BC to AD 476
Political and military events Cultural and other events
27 Octavian becomes first emperor Augustus 27 Agrippa's Pantheon
19 Virgil's Aeneid; poetry of Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid; history of Livy
16-AD 6 Conquest of Danube provinces
13 Theatre of Marcellus
9 Ara Pacis Augustae
2 Augustus' forum
AD AD
9 Varian disaster
14 Death of Augustus 14 Augustus' Res Gestae
14-37 Tiberius Teaching and death of Christ
37-41 Caligula
41-54 Claudius
43 Conquest of Britain
54-68 Nero Treatises and tragedies of Seneca; poetry of Persius and Lucan; novel of Petronius
60-61 Boudicca's revolt
64 Fire of Rome; first persecution of Christians
66-70 Jewish revolt
68-69 Galba, Otho, Vitellius
69-79 Vespasian Histories and treatises of Pliny the Elder
79-81 Titus 79 Eruption of Vesuvius
80 Colosseum
81-96 Domitian Epigrams of Martial, rhetoric of Quintilian
Histories of Tacitus, letters of Pliny the Younger, satires of Juvenal
96-98 Nerva
98-117 Trajan
107 Conquest of Dacia
112 Trajan's forum
117-138 Hadrian
122 Biographies of Suetonius
138-161 Antoninus Pius
142 Hadrian's Wall
Antonine Wall
Novel and oratory of Apuleius; legal writings of Gaius
161-180 Marcus Aurelius
180-192 Commodus
193-235 Severan dynasty
212 Roman citizenship extended to all free inhabitants of the empire
216 Baths of Caracalla
260 Decree of toleration of Christianity
271 Aurelian's city wall
272 Dacia ceded to the Goths
284-305 Diocletian
293 Tetrarchy established
307-337 Constantine I
312 Defeat of Maxentius at Milvian Bridge
315 Arch of Constantine
324 Foundation of Constantinople
410 Britain told to defend itself
455 Vandals sack Rome
476 Loss of western Roman empire complete
2006-11-21 15:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by southgraywolf 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋