The Roman Empire

  The Roman Empire, a name that will forever be carved in European History, from the lands of Lothian, United Kingdom to Baghdad of Iraq. Perhaps the most advanced empire for its time, steel armor, the gladius sword, and the shield and this empire expanded fast throughout it time as a nation. At first it was a small city and then defeated the empire of Carthage and this set up the Roman Empire to becoming what it was in our history.

  The Roman Empire after defeating Carthage in the Punic Wars, the young empire started expanding in modern day Spain, defeating all the barbarians in that area and then asserted into Europe even more, eventually taking Spain and spreading into Greece. The Roman Empire soon declared war on the Gauls and they managed to put up quite a fight against the Romans. However, the Romans still managed to beat them and now all of Modern day France was now a part of the empire. In the Balkans the Romans still expanded and was around a few hundred miles from what is now called Istanbul. The Romans eventually took Constantinople from the Greek city-states and now pushed into Asia, as far back as modern day Kuwait. They lost some land to the Parthians and got pushed back. Meanwhile in Egypt the Romans had all of Northern Africa, dealing with Cleopatra and her Egyptian nation. The Romans had a connected empire and still the giant was still desiring land and went up as far as modern day Crimea and the city of Azov. The Romans also expanded in modern day England and tried to push upwards into Scotland but were pushed back and eventually the Hadrian Wall was built to protect the lands the Romans already had on the isles. The empire was soon split up and the western part of the empire collapsed due to barbarians and now only the Byzantine empire was left and would last til 1453. The Roman Empire technically lasted from 453 b.c. to 1453 A.D from a date of its prime to experiencing the age of colonization.