Ancient Rome (Full-Color Edition) (Illustrated World History Series)

Ancient Rome (Full-Color Edition) takes you on a journey across the map of ancient Europe. At the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, around the Mediterranean, stood a mighty state: Ancient Rome. When people think of Rome, they first recall its unparalleled military might. Over the course of 500 years, this tiny state on the banks of the Tiber sent its invincible armies east and west, gradually conquering the surrounding regions and building an empire without precedent.

As Edgar Allan Poe wrote, “To Greece belongs glory, to Rome greatness.” The legacy of Ancient Rome has endured, its far-reaching influence still felt today.

Fortunes rise and fall, and great achievements can be undone. The once-mighty Roman Empire ultimately vanished from the map of Europe like a wisp of smoke, brought down by internal decadence and the combined assaults of western barbarians and the Huns. All that remains are weathered ruins, standing proudly in the wind and telling of the empire's former glory.