| ID | 157209 |
| Title Proper | Grandeur that was |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Mazo, Jeffrey |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In 150 CE, during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, the Roman Empire was at its height. It spanned over 3,500 kilometres from northern Britain to the lower Red Sea, and around 4,000km from Morocco to Syria. Rome was the first city on the planet to exceed one million inhabitants, and ruled a quarter of the world’s population. Along with Han China, the empire was one of the anchor states in a vast trading network uniting three continents. Less than three centuries later, Rome was captured and sacked, for the first time in 800 years, by a ‘barbarian’ Gothic army, and by 476 CE the western half of the empire – Britain, Gaul, Spain, Italy and North Africa – had disintegrated into a collection of Germanic kingdoms. Within two more centuries the eastern half had been reduced to just another mediaeval kingdom, a Roman Empire in name only. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 60, No.1; Feb-Mar 2018: p.169-178 |
| Journal Source | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol: 60 No 1 |
| Key Words | Health ; Italy ; Climate Change |