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The Roman Republic was the era of classical Roman civilization, led by the Roman people, beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom. -
The Hannibal came to Northern Italy with 26,000 soldiers that included Spanish infantry, the superbly trained Numidian cavalry, and war elephant. The Carthaginians again defeated the Romans on the left bank of the Trebia River. -
It's the most successful slave revolt in the history of Rome. The primary plan of the gladiators, according to the historian Plutarch, was only to escape. But things start to turn when that plan was discovered, they had no option but to fight for their independence or submit to execution. -
Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire, his rule lasted less than one year before he was assassinated. -
The Colosseum is the symbol of Rome. It is a grand structure with almost 2,000 years of history.
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The wall was built by the Roman army on the commands of the emperor Hadrian following his visit to Britain. The wall crossed northern Britain from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west, at 73 miles long.
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Emperor Diocletian decided that the Roman Empire was too large to control, so he divided the Empire into two sections, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. -
The fall of the Western Roman was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its enormous territory was divided into numerous successor polities.
