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The growth of the Ancient Roman

In this paper, I am going to talk about the ancient Roman. The ancient Romans are world famous. At least, I believe that no one would never heard of them. Everyone would probably have heard of the Romans are very dominant in their time and very powerful. And of course, the details are not known by everyone, unless those who had studied their history. In the following paragraphs, I would like to briefly introduce about the Rome and how they are formed, their eminent events, and the process of their rise and their declination. Roman played a great role in the history and modern day.

The Roman had been a very dominant race for a few centuries. They commenced their expansion of territory at around 753B.C, the beginning of the eighth century B.C. Their growth began from a little town of Tiber River, Mediterranean Sea which is in the center of Italy, and became an empire which at their most outstanding period covered most of the area in “Britain, Europe, Mediterranean Islands and Northern Africa” (history.com, 2013). Their population was also up to 50 to 90 million. In their history, they used a lot of languages since the area that they cover included many, such as French, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese and some other European languages. They are also origin of the major world religion, known as Roman Catholic. Four hundred and fifty years later, a republic Rome became an empire through the powerful leading by Julius Caesar but eventually was fallen in the 1st century B.C. Following, there was another emperor rose, his name is Augustus. He began a very superior, peace and wealthy kingdom in Roman. However, it started to decline again by the fifth century A.D. which is one of the worst domestic expl...

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