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| | Hope College IDS 171 Timelines: Rome |
 | | It was succeeded by imperial Rome, or the Roman Empire, which is usually held to have begun with Caesar Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD), and which lasted another five hundred years, until the Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was unceremoniously deposed by a Germanic king in 476. |
 | | The first two centuries of the imperium, from 27 BC to 180 AD, is known as the Pax Romana, or Roman Peace, because of the relative quiet that the Empire enjoyed in these years. |
 | | This culture was already widespread throughout much of the Near East - Alexander the Great's conquests way back in the 330s and 320s BC had seen to that. |
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