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Most history books will tell you that the Roman Empire fell in the V-century CE, but this would've come as a surprise to the millions who lived in the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages. This Medieval Roman Empire, today called the Byzantine Empire, began when Constantine, the first Christian emperor, moved Rome's capital. Leonora Neville details the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire. Why ?

Before the sun never set on the British Empire ; before Genghis Khan swept the steppe ; before Rome extended its influence to encircle the Mediterranean Sea ; there was ancient Assyria. Considered by historians to be the first true empire, Assyria's innovations laid the groundwork for every superpower that has followed. Why ?

In 19-BC, Roman poet Vergilius suffered heatstroke and died on his journey back to Italia. On his deathbed, he thought about the manuscript he had been working on for over ten years, an epic poem called the Aeneis. Unsatisfied with the final edit, he asked his friends to burn it. But they refused, and soon after Vergilius's death, Augustus ordered it to be published. Why ?