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• 1.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 01
• Over 1,000 years after Rome's fall, the armies of the French emperor Napoleon descend on the city. Napoleon's forces have already battled their way th...
• 2.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 02
• Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th c...
• 3.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 03
• And this vast, well-organized empire would muster the largest army the world had ever seen: over half a million soldiers. Rome was the superpower of t...
• 4.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 04
• When the Mediterranean sailors of ancient Greece and Egypt looked west toward Italy, they stared into a great unknown. It was 800 years before the bir...
• 5.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 05
• But above all, the Etruscans were famous for their open displays of affection between men and women. It shocked the ancient world. The Greeks who knew...
• 6.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 06
• 【 collation 】 Rome took everything from the Etruscans. Etruscan engineers showed them how to drain the marshes where Rome now stands and channel the...
• 7.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 07
• 【 collation 】 Livy set out to write a brief history of early Rome, celebrating its glories and virtues, propaganda for the reforms of Augustus. What...
• 8.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 08
• 【 collation 】 The story about Romulus killing his twin brother, at the moment of the founding of the city is a very old story. It is very very remar...
• 9.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 09
• 【 collation 】 As it approached the 5th century BC, Rome was emerging from its legendary past into the real world of recorded history. It was now a t...
• 10.The Rise 罗马崛起 - 10
• 【 collation 】 The census didn’t create equality or democracy. Rome remained a society governed by kings and nobles. Women had few rights. But it cr...