At its height Ancient Rome ruled North Africa, Asia Minor, the Arabian Peninsula and Western Europe and extended beyond lands once held by the Ancient Greeks, the Assyrians and the Ancient Egyptians. This is the story of a City that grew into an empire, one that laid the foundations of civilization for the next two thousand years.
"Ancient Rome began as a village of humble dwellings on the Palatine and grew to be one of the mightiest and most successful empires of human history, before collapsing in the West under invasions of barbarian nations attracted by Rome's wealth and land, over a thousand years later. The legacy of Rome continues in the languages of modern Europe, in the calendar and the alphabet we use, and in the religion called Christianity which remains the dominant faith throughout the Western world."--
