Nevertheless the Lombards viewed Italy as a rich land which promised great booty, assets Alboin used to gather together a horde which included not only Lombards but many other peoples of the region, including Heruli, Suebi, Gepids, Thuringii, Bulgars, Sarmatians, the remaining Romans and a few Ostrogoths.

It is possible that the Aedui adopted many of the governmental practices of the Romans, such as the electing of magistrates and other officials.

Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.

The Romans used precursors made of reusable wax-covered tablets of wood for taking notes and other informal writings.

Among the teachings of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Matthew, the message to his followers that one should " Turn the other cheek " and his example in the story Pericope Adulterae, in which Jesus intervenes in the stoning of an adulteress, are generally accepted as his condemnation of physical retaliation ( though most scholars agree that the latter passage was " certainly not part of the original text of St John's Gospel ") More militant Christians consider Romans 13: 3 – 4 to support the death penalty.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

This early date, only a few decades after the departure of the Romans, also suggests that more of Roman civilization may have survived into Anglo-Saxon rule in Kent, than in other areas.

There are also many " noteworthy elements " missing from Romans that are included in other areas of the Pauline corpus.

The Protestants think that Romans, as well as other New Testament epistles, emphasizes that people are saved by their faith and not by their own righteous actions.

The indemnity demanded by the Romans caused strain on the city's finances and forced Carthage to look to other areas of influence for the money to pay Rome.

But this arrangement soon gave way before the ambition of one of these tetrarchs, Deiotarus, the contemporary of Cicero and Julius Caesar, who made himself master of the other two tetrarchies and was finally recognized by the Romans as ' king ' of Galatia.

Greeks, Romans, and Persians took the form to a greater depth during their years of world domination, using scale replicas of enemy fortifications, coastal defense lines, and other geographic fixtures to plan battles.

However, when the Romans failed to deliver the agreed tribute, and other conditions of the Treaty of Margus were not met, both Hunnic kings turned their attention back to the Eastern Romans.

This was the high water mark of Roman territory in Britain: shortly after his victory, Agricola was recalled from Britain back to Rome, and the Romans retired to a more defensible line along the Forth-Clyde isthmus, freeing soldiers badly needed along other frontiers.

Ancient Romans originally applied orca ( plural orcae ) to these animals, possibly borrowing it from the Greek, which referred ( among other things ) to a whale species.

It has been documented in historical accounts Celtic tribes wore trousers, which the Romans called bracae, as did many other neighboring peoples to the Romans.

His desire for her and hatred for the Romans lead him to join the People's Front of Judea ( PFJ ), one of many fractious and bickering independence movements, who spend more time fighting each other than the Romans.

This poll also featured two of the film's other famous lines (" What have the Romans ever done for us?

As the Romans outlawed human sacrifice, this opens up other possibilities ; this was emphasised by historian Ronald Hutton, who challenged the interpretation of sacrificial death.

The first area colonized by the Lusitani was probably the Douro valley and the region of Beira Alta ( present day Portugal ); in Beira, they stayed until they defeated the Celtici and other tribes, then they expanded to cover a territory that reached Estremadura before the arrival of the Romans.

The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.

The high cost of his victories against the Romans gave Epirus a new, but brief, importance, as well as a lasting contribution to the Greek language with the concept of a " Pyrrhic victory ".

Valerian's capture was a scorching defeat for the Romans, though partly balanced by subsequent victories

Building on his victories, Totila followed these victories by defeating the Romans outside Florence and capturing Naples.

At first, the Romans won a number of small victories, largely due to Perseus ' refusal to consolidate his armies.

For his victories, which avenged all the previous defeats suffered by the Romans against the Sassanids, Carus received the title of Persicus Maximus.

He is a great favourite in Persian tradition, which relates many stories of his valour and beauty ; of his victories over the Romans, Turks, Indians, and Africans ; and of his adventures in hunting and in love.

After his victory over Syphax, Masinissa commanded his skilled Numidian cavalry against the Romans in Spain, where he was involved in the Carthaginian victories of Castulo and Ilorca ( both 211 ).

He quickly won two major victories over the Romans at the Battle of Trebia and at the Battle of Lake Trasimene.

The Samnites would have gained significant ground in Campania by the time the Romans arrived and Valerius ' two victories could be the outcome of twin Samnite attacks on Capua and Cumae.

Between 311 and 304, the Romans and their allies won a series of victories against both the Etruscans ( 310 at Perusia ) and the Samnites.

Pompey, who had just been awarded the title " Conqueror of Asia " due to his decisive victories in Asia Minor over Pontus and the Seleucid Empire, had decided to bring Judea under the rule of the Romans.

In both of Pyrrhus's victories, the Romans suffered greater casualties than Pyrrhus did.

After decisive victories over the Romans at Noreia and Arausio, the Cimbri and Teutones divided forces and were then defeated separately by Gaius Marius in 102 BC and 101 BC, ending the Cimbrian War.

Sulla was a gifted and skilful general and won many victories against barbarians-and also against fellow Romans and Italians.

After these victories Corvus returned to Rome to celebrate his second triumph, reportedly the most impressive that the Romans had yet witnessed up to that time.

Pyrrhus had been drained by his recent wars in Sicily, and by the earlier Pyrrhic victories over the Romans, and thus decided to end his campaign in Italy and return to Epirus.

Roman armies were not invincible, despite their formidable reputation and host of victories: over the centuries the Romans " produced their share of incompetents " who led Roman armies into catastrophic defeats.

Viriatus led the Lusitanians to several victories over the Romans between 147 BC and 139 BC before he was betrayed to the Romans and killed.

As Albert Speer remarked, when it was safe to do so: " The Romans built arches of triumph to celebrate the big victories won by the Roman Empire, while Hitler built them to celebrate victories he had not yet won ".

In the same way, the Romans had built celebratory trophies on the borders of their empire to commemorate victories and warn off would-be attackers.

Due to Hannibal's skill as a general, he repeatedly inflicted devastating losses on the Romans despite the numerical inferiority of his army — quickly achieving two crushing victories over the Romans at the Battle of Trebbia and the Battle of Lake Trasimene.