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Chapter 16: Rome Becomes an Empire — World History 101

Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, the Republic collapses, and Octavian outlasts Mark Antony and Cleopatra to become Augustus — the first emperor of Rome.
Chapter 19: The Pax Romana and Beyond — World History 101

Two centuries of Roman peace under the early emperors, the Imperial Crisis of the third century, Diocletian’s reforms, Constantine’s conversion, and five reasons the Western Empire eventually fell.