Bust of a man (Rome, ca. 300 BC) Around 500 BC, just as democracy was getting started in Athens, the Roman aristocrats (the rich people) decided they didn't want to be ruled by Etruscan kings anymore. [...]
Rome Bingo card Rome Bingo card (It will get bigger if you drag it to your desktop) Here's a board to print out for Roman history bingo. And here are [...]
The Roman emperor Diocletian Peace for a while Around 280 AD, the Sassanids gradually stopped attacking the Roman Empire so much. They were having civil wars of their own, and the Huns were attacking them [...]
The Roman emperor Trebonianus Gallus Bad crops and high taxes In the 200s AD (the third century), the Roman Empire had a very hard time. Climate change was making the weather cooler, and that may have [...]
The Roman emperor Constantius II, son of Constantine Constantine II, Constantius, and Constans The Roman emperor Constantine died in his 60s in 337 AD. His three surviving sons split the Empire [...]
The Roman emperor Constantine - the first Christian emperor Constantius' son Constantine Diocletian's Tetrarchy worked pretty well for about 20 years, but then it broke down. In 306 AD one of the four [...]
Julius Caesar When Julius Caesar got to Egypt, he was happy to find out that Pompey was dead. Julius Caesar spent the winter in Egypt, where he met Egypt's pharaoh, Cleopatra. When he went back to Rome [...]
The Roman emperor Claudius (died 54 AD) Claudius's family Claudius was born in 10 BC in the city of Lugdunum in Gaul (modern Lyons, France). His mother was Antonia Minor, Mark Anthony's youngest [...]
The Roman Empire in the Late Republic Rome rules the Mediterranean Sea By 146 BC, after the Third Punic War, the Romans were the only important power left in the Mediterranean Sea, and [...]
The Roman emperor Caligula Why was his nickname Caligula? Caligula's real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (after his ancestors Julius Caesar and Augustus). But everyone called him Caligula [...]
