Ancient Rome | Can’t Sleep? Learn About the Roman Empire

About this episode

This episode explores the rise of Ancient Rome and its lasting impact on history.

Can’t sleep, so you may as well spend some time with the Romans, who somehow turned roads, law, politics, and organized ambition into a whole civilization. In this calm, steady episode, you’ll hear about the rise of Ancient Rome, how the Republic worked until it very much didn’t, and the everyday ideas and systems that helped Rome leave its fingerprints all over history. No whispering, no jump scares, just a measured reading to give your brain something interesting to do while the rest of you powers down. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Ancient Rome, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: ju

Topics covered

• Ancient Rome
• Roman Empire
• history
• civilization
• politics
• law

Keywords

• Ancient Rome
• Roman Empire
• history
• civilization
• politics
• law
• sleep

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

Places: Ancient Rome

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