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The Roman world
- Italian and
provincial from 8th-4th or 3rd cent. BCE
- a
Mediterranean/Hellenistic power from 3rd-1st, and
- two stages--divided
in the late 2nd-early 3rd cent. CE--of a world empire from then til
whenever it "fell".
It can be viewed
- chronologically:
magistrates, laws, foundations, battles, emperors
- as a series of
social systems
- as a series of
political systems
- as a series of
economic systems
- as a series of
cultural (educational, religious) systems
- as a series of
modern "receptions" of the above
It raises a series of questions
that we will discuss.
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