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AN EMPIRE ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS

ROMAN EMPIRE

THE ROMAN EMPIRE COVERED A VAST

STRETCH OF TERRITORY THAT INCLUDED

MOST OF EUROPE , A LARGE PART OF THE

FERTILE CRESCENT AND NORTH AFRICA

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• TWO POWERFUL EMPIRES RULED OVER MOST

OF EUROPE , NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE

EAST BETWEEN THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AND THE

EARLY PART OF SEVENTH CENTURY.

• TWO EMPIRES WERE THOSE OF ROME AND

IRAN.

• THEY WERE RIVALS OF EACH OTHERS.

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• Their empires lay next to each other, separated only by narrow strip of land that ran along the river Euphrates
• If you look at the Map, you will see that the continents of Europe and Africa are separated by a sea that stretches all the from Spain in the west to Syria in the east. This sea is called the Mediterranean, and it was called the heart of Rome empire. Rome dominated the Mediterranean and all the region around that sea in both directions, north as well as south. To the north were the rivers, the Rhine and the Danube.To the south was the desert called Sahara.
• This vast stretch of territory was the Roman Empire.

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GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF

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ROME

• Iran controlled the whole area south of the Caspian Sea down to eastern Arabia, and sometimes large parts of Afghanistan as well.
• These two superpowers had divided up most of the world

that the Chinese called Ta Ch’in (‘greater Ch’in, roughly the west).

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ROMAN EMPIRE

ROMAN EMPIRE

EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE

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3 ^rd CENTURY BC

• The Roman Empire can be broadly divided into two phases, early’ and ‘late’ divided by the third century as a sort of historical watershed between them.
• The whole period down to the main part of the third century can be called the ‘early empire’, and the period after that the ‘late empire’.

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