Ancient Worlds · Empires
Rome: Rise & Fall
A thousand years of Rome: the Republic's institutions, conquest and the Punic Wars, civil war and Augustus, the Pax Romana, the third-century crisis, Diocletian and Constantine, the western collapse in 476, and the long debate over why Rome fell.
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Prereqs: Ancient Greece; Julius Caesar (Great Minds). Next: Byzantium; The Silk Road. Sources: Mary Beard, *SPQR* (2015); Edward Gibbon, *Decline and Fall* (1776–89); Kyle Harper, *The Fate of Rome* (2017); Bryan Ward-Perkins, *The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization* (2005).Next: 1. Rise