The Roman Empire( Latin Imperium Romanum(ɪmˈpɛri.

ũː roːˈmaːnũː); Greek Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων,

translit. Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was thepost-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included
large territorial effects around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, and was
ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military
lawlessness of the 3rd century, it was a Principate with Italia as the metropole of its businesses and the
megacity of Rome as its sole capital. The Empire was latterly ruled by multiple emperors who participated
control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. The megacity of Rome remained
the nominal capital of both corridor until announcement 476 when the Homeric button were transferred to
Constantinople following the prisoner of the Western capital of Ravenna by the Germanic heathens . The
relinquishment of Christianity as the state church of the Roman Empire in AD 380 and the fall of the Western
Roman Empire to Germanic lords conventionally marks the end of classical age and the morning of the
Middle periods. Because of these events, along with the gradational Hellenization of the Eastern Roman
Empire, chroniclers distinguish the medieval Roman Empire that remained in the Eastern businesses as the
intricate Conglomerate.

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