Roman Empire
About Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was a state that controlled the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa during the classical period. The Roman Republic had previously conquered most of these territories, which became ruled by emperors following triumvir Octavian's rise to power and establishment of a Principate regime in 27 BC. By the 4th century AD the empire split into western and eastern halves. The Western Empire collapsed in 476 AD, while the Eastern Empire endured until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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The economic activity of the Roman Empire can be measured by studying thousand-year-old ice in Greenland.
from No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark, 2018-09-07 at 00:14:52 · read transcript
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Yes, yeah. I like it's another gust of wind fact going into the... Because maybe it does something. Interestingly, you can tell the economic activity of the Roman Empire from discarded foreskins of Hawaiian children. Oh, my God. This, uh, the author of this paper, um, is called Milton Diamond, as you mentioned before. The only thing that I could find of, uh, interest outside of, uh, him writing this paper.
No Such Thing As A Sexy Question Mark, 2018-09-07 · listen
I don't think that's the biggest auction of all time though even the water lilies one. I've got one that was bigger. Go on. The entire Roman Empire was auctioned off in 193 AD. It was auctioned off by the Victorian Guard who took bids from a couple of people. It was a closed auction, it wasn't anyone could bid. This is according to Cassius Dio who wrote a history of Rome and 2 people were bidding, Saul Piccianis and Marcus Didius Salveius Julianis and he made the maximum bid.
No Such Thing As Wasted Material 2017, 2017-12-29 · listen
The Byzantines were the... Is that the Eastern lot? They called themselves the Romans. They didn't say we are the Byzantine Empire or what a shame about Rome. They completely saw themselves as the continuation of the Roman Empire. They just happened to all be Christians and have moved with the times. We called the Christians Romans for a bit. Then we just decided, no, sod it.
310: No Such Thing As A Mungmonger, 2020-02-28 · listen
Yeah. Then I thought, you know, can anyone do it with their bare hands? I actually found the first non-Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax, who was supposedly a rock crusher. The first non-Roman emperor? Yeah. As in he wasn't born in the Roman Empire. He was... Sorry, but he was Emperor of Rome. Exactly. Yeah. He's a person who was very tall, but because he was quite a lot taller of the most people, the exaggerations have been written down and it's hard to know where he was.
No Such Thing As Glass in the Future, 2022-12-09 · listen
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