Introduction

During the reign of antoninus pius, rome was at the height of its power. The age of military expansion had given way to an age of buraucratic management. With the exception of trajan's last hurrah, the romans had more or less come to terms with the fact that their domains were what they were. To day, i want to go on what will have to be a high speed tour of the empire so we can touch base with each of the forty two odd provinces that now make up the roman empire. Start in italy, travel north into gaul and britain, then south through hispania, east across north africa