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A History of the Roman World
By. Salmon, E.T

The Book A History of the Roman World is about the history of Rome and the height of the Roman Empire. The book goes in great detail on the Emperors and the timeline of events in the Roman Empire, however, there is much more to the empire than those two aspects. This book fails to show the social aspect such as the integration of other cultures into the empire, and the differences between the social classes.
The first strength of this book is that information on emperors of Rome is easy to look up in this book. It goes into detail on how each emperor came into power to how they were killed or why they left power. Each emperor is depicted on what they did and how it helped or hurt the empire.
The next strength is the timeline of events is very important (as it is in any history book). This book is as precise as can be with the ancient information. It has each emperor's ruling years in it and when important events happened.......

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