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Mary T. Boatwright is the author of 'The Romans: From Village to Empire: A History of Rome from Earliest Times to the End of the Western Empire', published 2011 under ISBN 9780199730575 and ISBN 0199730571.
[read more]I learned about how the roman culture gradually expanded their empire all throughout Europe and North Africa and so on. I learned about their culture and how they moved through different periods (Hellenistic, republic) and about their society in general. I learned how they fought and the weapons and tools they had at their disposal as well as what ships they used and how they traveled. The artifacts and literature/poetry. They were unhelpful because for the class I was in we learned mostly about the specific people and who they conquered.
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