Facts at Your Fingertips: Ancient Rome

Introduction 4 Timeline 6 The Etruscans 8 Beginnings of Rome 10 War with Carthage 12 Early Years of Crisis 14 Republican Rome 16 Rise of Caesar 18 The Empire of Augustus 20 Provinces and Frontiers 22 The Emperors 24 Imperial Rome 26 The Later Empire 28 Geography of the empire 30 Africa 32 Leptis Magna, Timgad 34 Spain and Portugal 36 Gaul and Germany 38 Estrees-sur-Noye, Trier, Nimes 40 Britain 42 Silchester, Hadrian's Wall 44 The Danube 46 Greece and the Balkans 48 Athens, Corinth 50 Asia Minor 52 Ephesus, Aphrodisias 54 The Exotic East 56 Palmyra, Masada 58 Egypt 60 Further Reading 62 Index 63