(Teachers, for your intro page please click HERE)
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire is one of the most iconic episodes in Western history. In this unit, a sequence of maps offers a panoramic overview of this process. Whereas the free maps do this in just five maps, this Premium unit has seventeen – allowing a proper study of the topic.
To go to the first map, please click HERE
The maps cover….
- The Roman conquest of Italy;
- The three great wars between Rome and its great rival, Carthage;
- The Roman conquest of the Mediterranean;
- The civil wars which brought down the Republic;
- The transition from Republic to Empire;
- The Pax Romana;
- The Crisis of the Empire in the Third Century, when it almost fell apart;
- The Later Roman Empire of the Fourth Century; and
- The Fall of the Roman Empire in the West.
For the start of the map sequence, please go to Roman Empire 500 BCE.