The New Childrens Encyclopedia

GREEKS AND... ROMANS

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Julius Caesar, the

military leader

of the Roman

Republic,

conquered Gaul in

western Europe.

Augustus changed

the Roman

Republic to an

empire and

became the first

emperor of Rome.

58 –50 BCE

At the end of the

fourth Macedonian

War, the Roman

Republic finally

defeated the

ancient Greeks.

148 BCE 27 BCE

Attacks from

barbarians caused

the Western

Roman Empire

to collapse.

476 CE

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Aqueducts, such as the Pont du Gard in

France, are just one example of the Romans’

great engineering feats across their empire.

Romans

Starting out as a people from a small town

ruled by a king in 753 BCE, the ambitious

Romans ended up conquering a vast empire

by impressive military power.

The Roman Empire By 117 CE, the

Roman Empire stretched around the

Mediterranean Sea, up through western

Europe to Britain and across into Asia.

In the 3rd century, the empire was

divided between two emperors for

better control.

HISTORY AND POLITICS

GAUL

GREECE

EGYPT

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The Roman Republic, formed in

509 BCE, was governed by a senate,

but senators came from wealthy

families and only Roman citizens

could vote. Later, the empire was

ruled by unelected emperors.

 THE ROMAN FORUM

At the center of every

Roman city was an open

space surrounded by the

main temples and

public buildings.

People gathered here

to do business.

Rome O O
Constantinople

Mediterranean Sea