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Another interesting fact about the Romans is that there were also travelers in the Roman Empire, but they were mainly merchants, soldiers, doctors and artists....

Throughout the course of the week, every Roman family slaughtered either a pig, calf or sheep as animal sacrifice for the god Saturn. The Romans organized huge feasts, while relatives exchanged gifts....

The Roman Empire is one of the strongest and longest-lasting empires, marking history with significant events....

For a while the Romans managed to hold them off, but then the city fell....

The fossils found in Romania prove that the flying T-rex was an exception. Its neck was much shorter and its bones a lot stronger, about 1/4" thick....

After a few seconds, the Romans lost consciousness and later died in minutes....

In 450 BC the first Roman code of laws was created. It was inscribed on 12 bronze tablets, known as the Twelve Tables, and publicly displayed in the Roman Forum....

For Romans, one of the greatest sins was to violate a Vestal Virgin's oath of celibacy. An example was the 25th Roman Emperor, Elagabalus, who did just that....

They washed their clothes with urine
To wash their clothes, the Romans used their own urine....

Naturally, the victory was a hollow one, for the Romans lost many of their own men while quelling the rebellion....

It is these that have led experts to believe that the Romans conducted burial rituals before constructing the temples themselves....

In 122 BC, it was rebuilt, but now as Roman Carthage and according to the Roman urban planning model. Carthage was also the first Roman colony outside the Italian peninsula....

Three years of defeats for the Romans followed - in the battles of Trebia, Lake Trasimene, Cana, etc....

With infinite patience, skill and efficiency, Octavian remade all aspects of Roman life and brought lasting peace and prosperity to the Roman world for the next 150 years....