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The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 17 dated map states, and 44 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
The Republic and Its Rival
CHAPTER 1 · 264 BC
The Punic Wars: Hannibal
CHAPTER 2 · 216 BC
The Greek East Falls
CHAPTER 3 · 146 BC
The Republic Breaks
CHAPTER 4 · 62 BC
Caesar
CHAPTER 5 · 52 BC
Augustus
CHAPTER 6 · 30 BC
The Pax Romana
CHAPTER 7 · AD 117
The Third-Century Crisis
CHAPTER 8 · AD 271
Diocletian and Constantine
CHAPTER 9 · AD 312
The Storm from the North
CHAPTER 10 · AD 396
The Fall of the West
CHAPTER 11 · AD 451
Why Rome Fell — and What Survived
CHAPTER 12 · AD 481
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
● 476: the end in the West✕ Actium✕ Adrianople✕ Aegates Islands◆ Alesia✕ Beneventum✕ Cannae✕ Catalaunian Fields● Claudian conquest of Britain● Constantinople founded● Council of Nicaea◆ Destruction of Carthage◆ Destruction of Corinth● Diocletian’s court● Egypt annexed✕ Fall of Sarmizegetusa● Hadrian’s Wall✕ Lake Trasimene◆ Massacre of Thessalonica✕ Milvian Bridge✕ Pharsalus✕ Philippi● Pompey’s settlement✕ Pydna● Siege of Saguntum● Sulla marches on Rome✕ Teutoburg Forest● The Aurelian Walls● The Gallic Empire● The Gracchi murdered● The Ides of March● The Mamertine appeal● The Pergamon bequest● The Rhine crossing● The Rubicon◆ The Spartacus revolt◆ The Temple destroyed◆ The sack of Rome◆ The second sack✕ Trebia✕ Valerian captured at Edessa● Vandals take Carthage✕ Zama● Zenobia’s Palmyra
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