40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

[Peter1469]

If you like maps as much as I do, you will spend a lot of time with this link.


40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

Two thousand years ago, on August 19, 14 AD, Caesar Augustus died. He was Rome’s first emperor, having won a civil war more than 40 years earlier that transformed the dysfunctional Roman Republic into an empire. Under Augustus and his successors, the empire experienced 200 years of relative peace and prosperity. Here are 40 maps that explain the Roman Empire — its rise and fall, its culture and economy, and how it laid the foundations of the modern world.

The Roman Empire was vast





The provinces of Rome in 117




Italy before Roman conquest




The first war with Carthage







How Augustus tamed the Roman legions

[Common]

Rome was vast and thats what killed it, it was to big to defend

[Peter1469]

Rome was vast and thats what killed it, it was to big to defend

Or Roman citizens became to soft to defend it.