books.google.co.in - The Romans succeeded in less than fifty-three years in subjecting almost the whole inhabited world of their rule. This book tells the story of the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus and its consolidation in the first two centuries...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Oxford_Illustrated_History_of_the_Ro.html?id=w95Nb-BJWRcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Oxford Illustrated History of the Roman World
