Rome: A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE

For many years there has explained the height and the rise of Rome claiming to be the moral, political institutions, military talent and good fortune of the Roman town.

It is also based on the physical environment of Rome and Italy, stating that Italy was located in the heart of the inhabited world. It praised the productivity of the Italian peninsula, expanded under the eyes of historians successive throughout the Mediterranean region. In the specific case of Italy, stated the length of the peninsula, the extension of the Apennines and climatic varieties that do not cease to be associated with it and guarantee a variety and a comprehensive range of foods.

The Roman Empire at its peak, at the beginning of the third century AD, included not only the peninsulas, islands and shores of the Mediterranean, as well as large tracts of the interior (to the edge of the Sahara and to the Tigris River), but also areas Europe located as far north as southern Scotland, the Rhine and Danube (as well as a part of southern Germany, on the other side of the Rhine and Dacia across the Danube Central).

Additionally, under the principality, the largest advances were made in Europe through the reign of the first emperor, Augustus. Your generals pushed the northern border from the Alps to the Danube and finally pacificaron the Iberian Peninsula. Beyond the matter of pure conquest, and sometimes economic strategic considerations played a role in shaping the campaigns of the emperors who were most active in the military field.

The Roman Empire extended far beyond the Mediterranean world, but during the entire period of principality, since about 27 BC Until 235 AD, the shaft political and the cultural basis of the rule were in the Mediterranean.