The longest-lasting empire in history, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Libya, from Portugal to Iraq, and ran for over 400 years. The dream of Rome has lived on ever since, with European leaders through the ages --- from Charlemagne to Napoleon to Mussolini --- trying and failing to imitate the Roman achievement. How did the Romans manage to weld the peoples of Europ... (展开全部) The longest-lasting empire in history, the Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Libya, from Portugal to Iraq, and ran for over 400 years. The dream of Rome has lived on ever since, with European leaders through the ages --- from Charlemagne to Napoleon to Mussolini --- trying and failing to imitate the Roman achievement. How did the Romans manage to weld the peoples of Europe together to create a single identity? And what would it take to do it again? Full of character, life, intrigue, action and opinion, The Dream of Rome is history the way we really like it --- alive and kicking.
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Boris Johnson is now the mayor for London. He was a Member of Parliament for Henley-on-Thames, a journalist and author of Lend me Your Ears, Friends, Voters Countrymen and a novel, Seventy-two Virgins. He lives with his wife and family in London and Oxfordshire.
