Rome

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1. Story
2. A settlement on the lower Tiber that grew from a central-Italian city-state into the administrative and symbolic centre of a Mediterranean empire. Its position matters twice over: far enough upriver to be defensible, close enough to the sea (via Ostia and later Portus) to be fed by grain fleets from Africa and Egypt. Rome's own population at its imperial peak is itself an estimate, commonly placed near one million but argued down to c. 500,000 by some demographers; no ancient census of the city survives in usable form.
3. Knowledge
4. Rome
5. Roman Law
6. The Roman Legion
7. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
8. Connections
9. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
10. The Roman Legion
11. Roman Law
12. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
13. Ostia Antica
14. Via Appia
15. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
16. Construction of the Via Appia begins
17. The Punic Wars
18. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
19. Assassination of Julius Caesar
20. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
21. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
22. Dedication of Constantinople
23. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
24. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
25. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
26. The Pantheon, Rome
27. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
28. Rome
29. Roman Citizenship (civitas Romana)
30. The Roman Road Network
31. Hadrian's Wall
32. Augustus (Gaius Octavius / Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus)
33. Gaius Julius Caesar
34. Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
35. The Punic Wars
36. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
37. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
38. Construction of Hadrian's Wall begins
39. The empire reaches its greatest territorial extent
40. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
41. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
42. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
43. Rome
44. Latin as an Administrative Language
45. Justinian I
46. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
47. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
48. The Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana)
49. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
50. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
51. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
52. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
53. Rome
54. The Roman Road Network
55. Alexandria
56. The Punic Wars
57. The Punic Wars
58. Battle of Actium
59. Dedication of Constantinople
60. Evidence
61. The inscribed property covers the ancient civic and monumental core of Rome including the Fora, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Mausoleum of Augustus, providing the geographic anchor for the city as an object.
62. Empire-wide population at the mid-2nd century CE is estimated in a range of roughly 59-72 million, with the wider scholarly spread running from c. 46 million under Augustus (Frier) to 60-90 million at the high end. The familiar '60 million' is one point inside a contested range, not a measured figure; the underlying Italian census debate (low count vs high count) is unresolved.