No, the Roman Empire came after the Greek expansion. However, the Greeks never had an empire. Ancient Greece consisted of several city-states, all independent of each other and many times going to war with each other. The only time they would unite was in times of some crises, such as a Persian invasion, which threatened them all. Alexander the great began building a Greek empire, but at his death it fell apart.
It was to expensive to restore the old Roman Empire
The worship of the Greek gods declined significantly with the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The process of conversion to Christianity was gradual and varied across different regions and time periods. The official end of the worship of the Greek gods can be traced to the 4th century CE when Emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan rituals and closed the temples dedicated to the ancient gods.
The prefix 'pre' means to come before. So in order to predate some thing it must come before the other. The early Egyptian empire (the old kingdom) dates to about 2700 BCE. The Roman empire was forged around 30 BCE. However, there was a Roman republic for sometime before that. Regardless, the Egyptian Empire came into existence long before the Roman.
Some adjectives for the Roman Empire are: old, vast, interesting, etc.
it united its territories under a central government
it united its territories under a central government
the capital of the Eastern Empire was Constantinople
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it united its territories under a central goverment
The Greeks developed over 2,000 independent city-states which did not come into union, but were spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Rome took over widely diverse cities, tribes, peoples in Western and Southern Europe and consolidated them into an empire.
One aspect of the "old Roman Empire" that was carried on to the new eastern Roman empire, which became the Byzantine Empire was the standard of written laws. This was an important feature of the old Roman republic and later when the republic was a shell of its former self. Generally referred to as the Roman Empire, there were still written laws.The governing office of Emperor also was carried on.
The Byzantine Empire was originally part of the Roman empire. After the Western Half of the Roman Empire Collapsed in 476 AD. The Eastern Empire continued on into the middle ages with its capital Constantinople.