98-117 AD - Trajan reigns. Trajan's reign takes Rome one more step toward universality. Now, educated and wealthy men from all over the Empire are eligible for the highest office. 180 AD - Pax ...

Trajan held onto power until 117 AD. His civilized rule set the tone for future generations; his expansion of the Roman Empire made it a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic melting pot that is still ...

At its widest extent in AD 117, the Roman empire stretched from Iberia to Persia, Britain to Egypt. More impressive is that the concept lasted from the bloody battlefields of Cannae to the era of Paul ...