HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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100 years
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10 years
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1, 000 years
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500 years
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Roman Empire was one of the greatest and most influential civilisations in the world and lasted for over a 1000 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Economic problems, government corruption, crime and private armies, and the rise of Julius Caesar as dictator all led to its eventual fall in 27 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Holy Roman Empire was a notional realm in central Europe, which lasted for around 1, 000 years, until 1806. Its name, however is rather misleading: the French philosopher Voltaire once decried the realm as “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire”.
Detailed explanation-4: -The final defeat of Antony alongside his ally and lover Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the Senate’s grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian as Augustus in 27 BC – which effectively made him the first Roman emperor – marked the end of the Republic.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium after the fall of the Roman Empire, ending with the Ottoman conquests in 1453.