Rome: Power & Glory S01E04 · Grasp of Empire

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Rome conquered with the brute force of her military machine, sweeping entire peoples into her empire. With the wars over, the treaties signed, the bodies buried, whether you were a Gaul or a Carthaginian, whether you were from the East or the West, life as you had known it would never be the same again. At its height, the Roman Empire ruled 50 million people as a single civilization. The Roman Empire was the largest and the most enduring of its kind. In "Grasp of an Empire", the viewer will experience the exporting of the Roman world through the glory years of conquest into the stability of the longest peace the world had ever known; The Pax Romana.

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3. 3 3. Seduction of Power1998-03-09Rome seemed to own the world. Her empire stretched from Scotland to the Sahara. Her army controlled three continents. Fifty million people lived under her laws. Rome's Empire was t
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6. 6 6. The Fall of the Roman Empire1998-03-12Rome's glory had shone for a thousand years. The Roman Empire had united all lands from Spain to Syria, created more prosperity, more stability and more peace than the Western worl
7. 7 7. Letters from the Roman Front1998-03-14Letters from the Roman Front
8. 8 8. Hidden History1998-03-15Hidden History