The basis of the latifundia in Spain and Sicily was the ager publicus that fell to the dispensation of the state through Rome's policy of war in the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. As much as a ...
The Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu includes laws relating to slaves, written circa 2100 – 2050 BCE; it is the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today. The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, d ...
The Latin word provincia originally meant any task or set of responsibilities assigned by the Senate to an individual who held imperium ("right of command"), which was often a military command within ...
The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (from Greek: Σελευκ?δαι, Seleukídai) were descendants of Seleucus I Nicator ("the Victor"), who ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East a ...
Partition of Alexander's empire Main article: DiadochiAlexander conquered the Persian Empire under its last Achaemenid dynast, Darius III, within a short time frame and died young, leaving an expansiv ...
Under Philip V of Macedon (221–179 BC) and his son Perseus of Macedon (179–168 BC), the kingdom clashed with the rising power of the Roman Republic. During the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, Macedon foug ...
See also: Makedon (mythology)The name Macedonia (Greek: Μακεδον?α, Makedonía) comes from the ancient Greek word μακεδν?? (Makednos). It is commonly explained as having originally mea ...
First of four examples of world government The Roman Empire is one of the four undisputed well-documented examples of a sustained military and political domination of one people and world-view over al ...
Thanks to the regular growth of the last years, Sicily is the eighth richest region in terms of total GDP (see List of Italian regions by GDP (PPP)). A series of reforms and investments on agriculture ...
Strong opposition to French officialdom due to mistreatment and taxation saw the local peoples of Sicily rise up, leading in 1282 to an insurrection known as the War of the Sicilian Vespers, which eve ...
Sicily has a roughly triangular shape, which earned it the name Trinacria, from Greek treis, "three", and akra, "promontory". To the east, it is separated from the Italian region of Calabria by the St ...
The African provinces were amongst the wealthiest regions in the Empire (rivaled only by Egypt, Syria and Italy itself) and as a consequence people from all over the Empire migrated into the Roman Afr ...
He was born the younger son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, the conqueror of Macedonia, and fought when he was 17 years old by his father's side at the Battle of Pydna, which decided the fate o ...
The phrase employs delendum, the gerundive of the verb deleo, "to destroy". The gerundive (or future passive participle) delendus is a verbal adjective that may be translated as "to be destroyed". Whe ...
The return of Cato seems to have accelerated the enmity of Scipio Africanus, who was Consul, 194 BC and is said to have desired the command of the province in which Cato was harvesting notoriety. Ther ...
