The Roman Empire grew over a long period ... the empire spread through North Africa, through the West all the way through Great Britain, to the East all the way to eastern Syria, and that embraced ...

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world profoundly.

His long rule saw a huge expansion in the Roman Empire and the beginnings of a dynasty ... north Africa and the Middle East could trade and travel under Rome’s protection. He had won over ...

the Roman Empire—stretching from Britain’s Atlantic Coast in the West all the way to Mesopotamia in the East—wasn’t exactly easy to govern by the late 3 rd century A.D. So, to make things ...