Christopher Kelly: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) [2006] paperback ZARTC All that beauty

All that beauty

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Christopher Kelly: The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) [2006] paperback ZARTC All that beautyThe Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from drizzle soaked northern England to the sun baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture.