Trajan - The Greatest Emperor of All Time

Nerva's reign had been brief and stormy. He will always be remembered as one of the five good emperors. His chosen heir turned out to be trajan, who was consistently ranked either second or third on the list of greatest emperors of all time. A military man at heart, he would leave augustus's injunction against further expansion in the dust. As a result of his campaigns, practically every standard map of the roman empire you see to day is labelled 'Rome at its greatest extent' i'm taking two weeks off for the holidays, but will be back on january tenth to begin the century gibbon famously called the period when the condition of the