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Roman Empire: Centuries
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A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline , after six centuries of world dominance was it's replacement of stone aqueducts by leadpipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world , turned their fellow citizens into neurological cripples.
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Owen MacLeod, born in Gaul over 2000 years ago, was the son of a tribal chieftain whose village was crushed by the Roman Empire. MacLeod was sent in chains to the gladiatorial arena in Pompeii where he faced what he imagined to be a short life of battle. However, it was in the Coliseum where he was killed, only to miraculously recover and begin a new life as an Immortal. Fighting through centuries against other Immortals in legendary battles ending in death by beheading, MacLeod now faces a mysterious and almost all-powerful Immortal who is hunting him down in New York City. With his mentor, Methos, guiding him, MacLeod learns that the only way to destroy this ultimate nemesis, is to search out the three fragments of a mysterious stone that when pieced together, yields unlimited power to the Immortal who possesses it.
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The death of Tiberius marked the beginning of a century of revolution and civil war that ended in the establishment of the Roman Empire. First of the popular military chiefs was Marius. He had become a national hero by capturing Jugurtha, leader of an insurrection in Africa, and almost destroying (102–101 BC) a horde of German barbarians (the Cimbri and Teutones) who had defeated…
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Though the spread of the Roman empire led to continental Celts adopting Roman culture, the development of Celtic Christianity in Ireland and Britain brought an early medieval renaissance of Celtic art between 400 and 1200. Antiquarian interest from the 17th century led to the term Celt being extended, and rising nationalism brought Celtic revivals from the 19th century in areas where the use of Celtic languages had continued.
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On the planet 892-IV, or Magna Roma, the culture developed a parallel Roman Empire, which did not fall and existed for at least 20 centuries. This parallel Empire reached a level of technology similar to that of 20th century Earth by the time the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) visited the planet in 2268. (TOS episode Bread and Circuses). It was later theorized that the Preservers had taken a number of Earth Romans and seeded that world with these people, who established their Empire on that world. (TOS novel Ex Machina).
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The replica ancient oil lamps in this section represent clay lamps used during height of the Roman Empire, from the 1st to about the 3rd centuries AD. Many of these lamps are molded directly from original Roman lamps. Others are made by carving Roman style motifs into the Roman-style gypsum molds, while still using a lamp body copied from an original Roman lamp. These reproduction Roman lamps can be used with olive oil like the originals.
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