2006-12-05 08:11:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Across northern Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Europe south/west of the Danube and west of the Rhine, and most of Britain.
2006-12-05 08:14:56 · answer #1 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Throughout most of what is now Europe and the near east. An empire is fundamentally a military dictatorship. Not a kingdom or royal dominion. It tries to affect the trappings of same but relies on military/brute strength to consolidate it's gains. A barb of illegitimacy in the eighteenth century on a potentate's dominions usually took that shape; e.g. Lucien Bonaparte to his brother Napoleon when remonstrated with about French dominion;
" You acquired them by the sword. " Ironically: " In the end, the sword is always overcome by the spirit. " - Napoleon
2006-12-05 16:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stretched from Northern Africa and Jerusalem to Scotland, and from modern Portugal to Romania and Eastern europe although Gaul and the germanic states were only briefly under their control.
2006-12-05 16:14:57 · answer #3 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wherever Rome ruled; even Britannia (England) but NOT north of Hadrian's Wall.
2006-12-05 16:20:35 · answer #4 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rome.
2006-12-05 16:15:23 · answer #5 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty much everywhere lol
2006-12-05 16:16:20 · answer #6 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋