#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

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So Augustus marks the start of the Roman Empire. You've written that Octavian Augustus would become Rome's first emperor, and the political system that he created would endure for the next half a millennium. This system would become the template for countless later empires up through the present day, and he would become the model emperor against whom all subsequent ones would be measured.