REGNRSG 105 Lecture 24:
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Territory- historians usually take the date 21st of april, 752 b. c. as the date of the founding of rome. It went from being a kingdom, then a republic and finally an empire. The territory of the roman empire included all the land that bordered on the mediterranean, but also the iberian peninsula, present-day france and belgium, and parts of germany, england, About 100 a. d, the size of the territory was 4. 5 million square kilometers, and there was an estimation of more than 70 million inhabitants. The romans adopted much of the already existing hellenistic culture, eventually creating a second. Capital", constantinople, on the site of an old greek colonial city byzantium. Conquest or contract- in the 17th century, the english philosopher thomas. Hobbes raised the question of whether it makes a difference for the authority of a sovereign if the unity of his domain was the result of agreement or of conquest.
