Growth and Expansion
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Ancient rome was a thriving civilization that began growing on the italian peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. It expaned to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world.It is approximatley tweleve centuried of existence.Roman civilization shifted frin a monarchy to an aristocratic republic to an increasingly autocratic empire. By the end of the republic rome had conqured the lands around the mediterranean and beyond its domain extended from the alantic to judaea and from th mouth of the rhine to north americia.Under trajan the empire reached its territorial peak.The republican values started to decline in the imperial times and civil wars became the common ritual for a new emperors rise.Plagued by instability and attacked by various migrating peoples the western part of the empire broke up into independent kingdoms in the 5th century .The eastern romean empire survivd this crisis and was governed from constantinople after the divison of the empire.Despite the later loss of syria and egypt to the arab islamic empire the eastern roman empire continued for another millenium until its remnants were finally annexed by the emerging
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