Roman Life (Life of Early Civilization)

These handsomely designed books mix appealing text, a wealth of full-color illustrations, and attractive sidebar material in eye-catching magazine-style layouts. Books are written on a popular young-adult level, and can be used as supplements to social studies texts in middle school and high school courses.From the eighth century B.C. until the fifth century A.D. Rome was the power center of the Western world. It started as a republic but by the time of Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. Rome was becoming an empire, dominating all Mediterranean lands, as well as much of Europe as far north as Britain.