With such a long and complex history spanning across different continents, the Roman Empire can be hard to trace, in order to distinguish its rise and fall we must first go back to its beginnings. After 450 years as a major republic, Rome became an empire in the wake of Julius Ceasar’s rise and fall in the 1st century BC. Beginning in the 8th century BC, ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peaked encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of Western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Whatever your view of Ancient Rome, you can’t deny that its international rule had wide-scale effects on our development. It was a powerful civilisation that ruled for nearly a 1000 years, controlling a huge portion of EuropeĪncient Rome is remembered for its supreme power, advanced engineering, military successes, religious customs, entertainment and its brutality. The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire is an ancient civilisation and one of history’s most legendary sovereign states.
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