How Rome became a powerful empire step by step

The city of Rome, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire.

is the most powerful. At that time, the Roman Empire had no rivals in Europe. So the Roman Empire was the strongest.

At that time, the Roman Empire was the most powerful, not only militarily strong, but also very fast-paced, and its territory had expanded a lot.

In the history of the West, yes, because he had a very strong army, a very developed economy, and a thriving culture at that time.

(2018 Yichang) spans Europe, Asia and Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea has become its inner lake, and the empire of Great Qin and Fu is called the Roman Empire by Chinese history books.

Since the beginning of the 5th century BC, it has conquered some cities in the Latin Confederation and close neighbors such as the Etruscans, and conquered the indigenous and Greek city-states in the southern part of the Italian peninsula, becoming a great power in the western Mediterranean. Rome waged three more Punic wars, conquering Carthage in 146 BC and making it a Roman province. 215 BC In 168 BC, he waged three Macedonian wars, conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula, Macedonia and controlled all of Greece.

Through the Roman-Syrian war and diplomacy, it took control of parts of Western Asia. It expanded around the 1st century into a vast Roman Empire that spanned Europe and Africa and dominated the Mediterranean.

Justinian reached his peak during his reign, and his actual control over the countries of present-day Europe (not counting the invasions) were: all of Spain, all of France, all of Monaco, all of Liechtenstein, all of Portugal, all of San Marino, all of the Vatican, all of Malaysia, all of Italy, all of Switzerland, all of Austria, part of Germany, part of the Czech Republic, part of Ukraine, part of the United Kingdom, part of the Netherlands, all of Belgium, all of Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro, The whole of Serbia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Algeria, Greece, Macedonia, and Turkey span two continents.

That's not the way it is. It's not that the Roman Empire suddenly disappeared, leaving a bunch of Romans sitting idle in a state of nothingness and saying, "Oops, it looks like our empire is gone." "I think our lives suck. ”

The decline of the Roman Empire was very slow, and for most people alive at the time, it may not be entirely clear when the Roman Empire ended. As I mentioned in this article published in July 2019, you can consider a candidacy for "the last Roman emperor."

There are nearly 12 of them.

In addition, in fact, many tried to rebuild the Roman Empire. Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.

r. 527 - 565 AD) was probably the closest to a complete re-establishment of the Roman Empire. Justinian I reconquered many of the lost territories of Rome, including all of Italy, and most of North Africa.

and most of Spain.

The recapture of territory by the former Rome at Justinian I was probably largely due to the extraordinary military prowess of Justinian I in general (500-565 AD), and his bloody but successful activities recorded by Byzantine historians.

Prokopios Kaisareia War in his book. Eventually, all the territories that had been reconquered during the reign of Justinian I were eventually lost. Be that as it may, the Byzantine Empire.

It controlled the territory of southern Italy until the 11th century AD.

The other is quite close to restoring the Western Roman Empire.

The man is Frank.

King Carlos Magnus (c. 748 - 814 AD), better known today as Charlemagne.

Charlemagne managed to bring all of Gaul, most of Italy, and most of Germany under his rule. On December 25, 800 AD, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the Holy Roman Empire.

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Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire was explicitly proclaimed as the revival of the Roman Empire. Pope Leo III declared that Empress Eirene Sarantapezana, then ruler of the Byzantine Empire, was illegitimate, because she was a woman, and according to Pope Leo III's reasoning, no woman could legitimately serve as Empress of the Roman Empire. Thus, Pope Leo III declared Charlemagne to be the true ruler of the Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire survived until its official dissolution in 1806. This means that you can make a less silly argument that the Roman Empire actually existed until the early 19th century.

Above: A bronze statue of a Frankish king on horseback, circa Charlemagne. This statue most likely represents Charlemagne himself. This equestrian sculpture draws on the long history of equestrian sculpture of Roman emperors.

Definitely. Because the Roman Empire was once very glorious, there were many people who tried to restore the glory of the Roman Empire.

There should be people who want to rebuild such a big empire, but there are no people who want to rebuild Rome, because they only want to build their own country and do not have a sense of identity with Rome.