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THE ROME EMPIRE
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
The history of Rome is divided in three periods:
1.The monarchy(753-509BC).
 Roman empire was founded in
753 BC in the centre of the Italian
Peninsula, according to legend
by Romulus y Remulo They were
took after by the Capitoline
Wolf.
 Rome had seven kings. Firstly
four Latin and
later three
Etruscans,
but
Etruscan
domination ended in 509 BC
with The King Tarquin “The
proud” expelled after a revolt.
According to Roman mythology the
twins Romulo and Remulo were
took care by the capitoline wolf.
Later they founded Rome.
2.-The Republican ( 509-27 BC)
 Roman territory expanded
quickly.
 Firstly the Romans dominated
the other societies on the Italian
Peninsula:
 The Etruscan in the north and
centre, the Latium in the centre,
the Greeks in the south, the
Magna Graecia.
 Secondly ,The Roman Empire dominated the western
Mediterranean region: Hispania, Gallia, Greece. On the
other hand, the Romans conquered the eastern
Mediterranean: North Africa, Asia Minor, Syria.
 However Rome, in order to obtain the most important
military and political power in The Mediterranean Sea (the
most important sea of the Ancient History), It had to fight
against Cartago, another important political power. That
is to say, this conflict was provoked because Rome and
Cartago want to control The Mediterranean: trade, and
territories.
 There were three wars,
called THE PUNIC
WARS.
 Finally Rome Empire
won to Cartago the
Mediterranean’s
control. Cartago was
destroyed by the
Romans.
3-The Empire (27 BC-476 AD)
 In 27 BC Octavian
became the first emperor
of Rome. All the
emperors were called
Augusto (Octavian was
the first) and they were
the religious leader, the
army boss, besides the
emperors managed the
politics and the laws.
The first empero Octavian Augustus
 The first and second century
were a maximum expansion’s
period of Roman Empire,
with emperor as Claudius,
Trajan and Hadrian.
 Romanisation expanded for
all Roman Empire, so all
Roman colonies began to use
the roman language (Latin),
costumes, political system.
 The economy grew, because
of, Romans Empire trade with
all their colonies and other
places.
The map
Trajan and
Hadrian
were born
in Italica,
Hispania
of the maximum extent of the Roman Empire under
Trajan in 117 AD
4.1 THE CRISIS
THE III CENTURY
 In the third century the
Roman Empire had a big
crisis and the enemies
invaded the Roman’s frontier.
The Persians attacked from
the east. The Germanic
tribes, “the barbarians”,
attacked from the north.
Peasant and soldiers revolted.
The cities were attacked and
the population immigrated to
the countryside.
Germanic
people.
 Diocletian established the
practice of dividing
authority in order to
secure the vast territory,
putting an end to the
Crisis of the Third Century.
Diocletian divided On the
one hand, the Western
Roman Empire (capital in
Rome), on the other hand
the Eastern Roman Empire
(capital in
Constantinople).
Diocletian, the
emperor that
divided the
Rome Empire
4.2.The CRISIS .IV-V
CENTURY.
THE END
 During the following decades the empire was often united
and separated, but after the death of Theodosius I in 395 it was
divided permanently.
 The Western Roman Empire collapsed, because the Germanic
tribes “the barbarians” were invading all the territory. So in 476
Romulus Augustus was the last Western Roman Empire. He was
forced to abdicate by Odoacer, a Germanic’s boss.
IT WAS THE END OF ANCIENT
HISTORY(476 AD)
Odoacer coming in Rome
 The Eastern Roman
Empire or Byzantine
Empire ended in 1453
with the capture of
Constantinople by the
Ottoman Turks.
IT WAS THE END OF
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
(1453)
Paleologos
the last
emperor
of the
Byzantine
Empire.
Fall of
Constantinople
THE END