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6 days ago · The Birth of an Empire. In the 5th century BC, long before anyone in Rome considered establishing a grand strategy of defense, it was the small and medium-sized landowners who were responsible for defending the Roman state, whose area of influence corresponded to barely half the surface area of the current Italian region of Lazio, i.e., an area ...
Even late game the city of Rome should remain your unit building machine as it can pump out Swordsmen and Longbowmen in 2-3 turns. Save Romulus by influencing Remus early. This is an advice I got from my last post and it was an amazing change as retaining Romulus as a leader means stability, continuity and a great early game leader.
11 hours ago · Under Augustus, a "global map of the known world" was displayed for the first time in public at Rome, coinciding with the creation of the most comprehensive political geography that survives from antiquity, the Geography of Strabo.
3 days ago · The logo of the Via Romea Strata. The Via Romea Strata is one of the historic pilgrimage routes to Rome that, since the Middle Ages, has led pilgrims and multi-day hikers across Central and Eastern Europe to the Holy City at St. Peter's Square. The route consists of ancient trade and communication routes and traces other paths, for example the ...
3 days ago · In ancient Greece and Rome, the onset of old age was generally considered to begin around the age of 60 for men and around 50 for women. These ages corresponded to the time when people began to have difficulty performing physical labor, and when women typically reached menopause. Men were also excused from mandatory military and civic service ...
1 day ago · For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ 1 peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and mobilization end up feeling quite alien: difficult to understand and to some modern observers, implausible.
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1 day ago · Almost 500 years old, this map of Rome by Mario Cartaro (from 1575) shows the city's primary monuments. Castel Sant'Angelo, or Hadrian's Mausoleum, is a Roman monument built in 134 AD, radically altered in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and crowned with 16th and 17th-century statues.
