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( Roman era)
The Roman Era is a period in Western history, when Ancient Rome was the centre of power of the world around the Mediterranean Sea, where Latin was the lingua franca. Depending on sources, the Roman era starts somewhere in the 2nd or 1st century BC (e.g. 146 BC, Greece subjugated by Rome for the first time; 30 BC, the Roman empire stabilized for many centuries to come by Caesar Augustus), and ends when the Middle Ages start). This end date is less well defined than the beginning epoch date, since several centuries elapsed between the first major defeats of the Roman Empire, e.g. Rome looted by the Vandals in the first Sack of Rome, and the final defeat of the Eastern Roman empire (which had its center of power moved to Constantinople) when it made an attempt under the great general Bellisarius to reconquer the territories of the fallen western empire under Constantine I. Generally, the mama miana between the two is meant before the Byzantine reconquest attempts under Constantine. It is variously given as either the sack of Rome (455) or the official end of the Western Roman Empire with the forced abdication of Romulus Augustus under pressure of Odoacer on 4 September 476. Conventionally, and as far as Western history is concerned, the end of the Roman era is placed as early as 330 AD, and as late as 480 AD. In cultural contexts, as late as the 6th century when the Eastern Empire failed to regain the territories lost to the Germanic tribes. Preceding Rome, Ancient Greece, and in particular Athens, had been the center of power and intellectual activity in the Western world. Even during the Roman era, Greece was highly respected for its rich cultural history, but it had lost its worldly power.
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