【 collation 】 Rome now piled victory upon victory all across Italy as one by one her neighbours fell to the legions. Rome's rise was gathering momentum, and by now seemed unstoppable. But she suff...
【collation】 The next night, when he knew Lucretia's husband was away, King Tarquin's son crept back to her house alone. With a knife at her throat, he raped her, and swore that if she breathed a w...
【 collation 】 The census didn’t create equality or democracy. Rome remained a society governed by kings and nobles. Women had few rights. But it created a level of organization unheard of in the...
【 collation 】 Rome took everything from the Etruscans. Etruscan engineers showed them how to drain the marshes where Rome now stands and channel the water into underground sewers. Etruscan archite...
But above all, the Etruscans were famous for their open displays of affection between men and women. It shocked the ancient world. The Greeks who knew the Etruscans from very early on before Rome was,...
When the Mediterranean sailors of ancient Greece and Egypt looked west toward Italy, they stared into a great unknown. It was 800 years before the birth of Christ and Rome still didn't exist but stori...
And this vast, well-organized empire would muster the largest army the world had ever seen: over half a million soldiers. Rome was the superpower of the ancient world. Later superpowers never stopped...
Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th century would a city approach this size again. What...
Over 1,000 years after Rome's fall, the armies of the French emperor Napoleon descend on the city. Napoleon's forces have already battled their way through Europe, take Rome seems an afterthought. By...
10 美国西部的崛起 DATE=3-15-2001 TITLE=THE MAKING OF A NATION #132 - (1)SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST BYLINE=FRANK BEARDSLEY VOICE ONE: (start at 0'12") The making of a nation -- a program in special...
