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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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The Romans were the first to colonize Sardinia, and for a short time, the Pisans, Genoese, and Austrian Empire reigned.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Under the Romans, Alexandria became the greatest commercial centre of the world and the emporium for the aromatic and pungent spices of India that found their way to the markets of Greece and the Roman Empire.
The Romans exported their cheeses through out the Mediterranean, and with the expansion of the Roman Empire the recipes and methods of cheese making spread.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Romans had crossed over into Greece to liberate her Greek allies from Macedon and ended up conquering the Macedonian Empire and incorporating it into the Roman Empire.
Describe the consolidation of the Byzantine state after the breakup of the Roman Empire and assess how Byzantium transmitted ancient traditions and created a new Christian civilization.
The Roman Empire splits into eastern and western factions and is eventually sacked by Germanic tribes in the late fifth century.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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To those who were living in the Persian, Byzantine and Roman empires, the message of Islam came like a breath of fresh air.
Even ancient Romans were captivated by Sorrento's beauty and built the Empire's most beautiful mansions in its surroundings.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The cavalry of the Iranian empires consistently demonstrated wonders of bravery in battle and often defeated the best Greek and Roman infantry.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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The knowledge that the Romans once possessed eventually fell into the hands once more of the followers of Jesus through the unification of Church and State the Roman Empire and now the Vatican.
This is the same Constantine which supposedly became a Christian and decreed that the whole Roman empire would be Christians too.
Jews were forbidden to enter Jerusalem by the Roman pagan empire and later by the Christian Byzantine Empire.
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