IMPERIUM ROMANUM

The Chinese chronicle, called the Book of the Later Han, tells how the unfortunate audience was when two Roman diplomats visited the Chinese emperor Huang in 166 CE. Thus, we have proof of the Romans' arrival in China.

The Battle of Thermopylae (191 BCE) was the victory of the Romans over the army of the Selucid king Antioch III. The clash took place in the legendary Thermopylae Gorge, where the Spartans defended themselves three centuries earlier.

King of Sparta - Nabis - sought to strengthen the position of Sparta in the Peloponnese. Thanks to effective politics and an enlarged army, he subdued the city of Argos. The Roman Republic, using divisions among Greek cities, decided to intervene.

According to ancient sources, on the evening of October 27, 312 CE, just before the battle at the Milvian Bridge, Constantine the Great was to have a vision that led him to victory with the support of a Christian god. Historical sources, however, are not consistent and differ on certain issues as to the so-called “miracle of Constantine”.

Battle of the Trebia (218 BCE) was the first great clash between Carthage and Rome in the Second Punic War. The troops of the Republic were completely defeated by Hannibal's army.

Herculaneum is a Roman city, located in Campania, Italy, which was destroyed along with Pompeii and Stabiae in 79 CE, as a result of the result of the eruption of Vesuvius. The good location – on the Gulf of Naples – meant that the city enjoyed the reputation of a great holiday resort.

Cleopatra VII was born in 69 BCE as Cleopatra VII Philopator. She was also known as Cleopatra the Great. She was the last pharaoh ruling Egypt of the Ptolemy. After her death, the lands of the Egyptian state were incorporated into the Roman Empire and became the Roman province.

Commodus was born on August 31, 161 CE as Lucius Aurelius Commodus in Lanuvium. He was the son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Faustina. He had a twin brother, Aurelius Antonin, who died at the age of four. Husband of Bruttii Crispina. This was the first case of a son inheriting his father’s imperial position in many years, the first since Titus.

Gerasa (modern Djerba) is located in Jordan. It was founded by Alexander the Great, and as he says, Józef Flavius ​ belonged to Dekapolis, i.e. a union of ten Hellenistic cities inhabited by non-Jewish people who opposed Semitic influences in the Jordan Valley.

Did Roman legionaries after losing the battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE settled in today's China?

At present, there is a common misconception that the vomitorium was a room specially dedicated by the ancient Romans to empty the stomach during banquets.

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