Roman Empire (Great Empires)

The Roman Empire is a large nation situated in Mediterranean Europe and West Asia.

Founding
The Roman Empire was founded by Augustus in 27 BC. It prospored and grew into one of the mightiest empires at that time. The Empire disintegrated under the pressure of Germanic tribes,the Huns and other "Barbarian" people. The empire was split between the Western and Eastern Roman Empire,the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476,the Eastern Roman Empire still exists as the Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire,also known as the Byzantine Empire reached its greatest exist under Justinian I and Theodora and declined after their death. The Byzantine Empire came under the attack of the Bulgarians,the Arabs,the Seljuks and the Mongols.

Second Founding
In 1178 the Byzantine Empire was already in fragile state and could not take another massive invasion. In the same year Tamar Bagrationi was crowned Queen regnant of Georgia,she expanded the Kingdom of Georgia greatly and started an invasion of the Byzantine Empire. In 1188 Tamar conquered Constantinople and proclaimed herself "Empress regnant of the Roman Empire". However,Pope Clement III refused to crown her Empress,because "crowns were reserved only for males in Medieval Europe".Tamar demanded the Pope to crown her or she would "take actions".The Pope ignored her demands,but Tamar marched with her army through the Balkans and Italy to personally demand Papal approval,she marched into Rome and demanded the Pope for approval.The Pope refused and Tamar removed him from office. At the age of 28 in 1188,she was crowned "Popess" and crowned herself "Empress of Rome". Future Popes have tried to "erase her from Papal history" (damnatio memoriae) bu failed. She was later used in the legend of Pope Joan and historians have concluded that Tamar is the mythical Pope Joan. Tamar reunited the Orthodox and Catholic Churches who split up in the Great Schism of 1054. She continued to hold this title until she voluntarily abdicated in 1191. She continued to expand the empire until it stretched from Italy to Georgia. She died in 1230 at the age of 70,not living long enough to see to Mongols arrive to ravage her empire.

Mongol Invasions
Her daughter Rusudan was crowned Empress of Rome after her death. The Mongol Empire under Ögedei Khan invaded the Roman Empire and with no strong leader the Roman Empire fragmented under the Mongol Raids. The Mongol were defeated by the Abbasids in the Siege of Baghdad in 1258 and soon all Mongol raids in the Middle-East stopped and disappeared.They were saved by their neighbours,but not for long. The Kipchak Khanate survived and reinvaded the Roman Empire in 1260. They succesfully conquered the Caucasus,but they decided to not conquer Anatolia and made peace in exchange for a large sum of gold. They remained in control of the Caucasus until George V reconquered it in 1300 when the Khanate was busy with an attack on the Duchy of Lithuania.

Resurgence-present
George V reunified the fragmented empre and made the empire once again a mighty power.In the more then 40 years he reigned,he conquered the Second Bulgarian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary before being stopped at the Siege of Vienna which led to to his demise in 1346.In 1490 Empress Mary of the Holy Roman Empire arranged a marriage of state with Roman Emperor Alexander IV in her plot to unify the Holy Roman and Byzantine Empires.The marriage was foiled when a servant told Alexander IV of her plot to domination and he refused on the day of marriage.The empire was still in its golden age after his death.In the following centuries the empire continued to prosper and blossom with no major territorial change or important events. In 1930 the Roman Empire formed an alliance with the Holy Roman Empire as the Roman Alliance.The Roman Alliance allied itself with the Aztec Empire,Maya Kingdom,Inca Empire,Songhai Empire,Mongol Empire and Mughal Empire in the "Alliance of Great Nations". In an attempt to bring the Roman Empire back to its former glory the Roman Alliance declared war on France,Spain,Kenopia ,Arabia and Morocco. The world was plunged into a global war by the events that followed. The Aztec and Maya Empire invaded the United States;the Inca Empire invaded Brazil and Venezuela;the Songhai Empire invaded Morocco,Kongo,Lyrobia and the Central African Republic;the Mongol Empire invaded China,Tibet,Russia and Arabia;the Mughal Empire invaded Arabia,the Empire of Bhutan and the Khmer Empire.At its height in the war the Roman Empire was even greater then the original Roman Empire,but when the allied nations began to unite against a global threat the Roman Empire soon lost its annexed territories. When the Allied Nations laid siege to Rome and conquered it the Roman Alliance was forced to make peace or "encounter the total destruction of the empire".The Roman Alliance continued their war and atomic bombs were dropped on Berlin and Rome,killing thousands of innocent people and destroying many historical buildings. The Roman Alliance made peace or it would be annihilated. The Great War ended in 1945 with status quo ante bellum and defeat for the Great Nations Alliance,the alliance was forced to pay an extremely high price for its near destruction of order in the world. The Roman Empire recovered slowly and is now the tenth largest economy on Earth and an important nation.

Economy
The Roman Empire is currently the tenth largest economy on Earth with a value of 4,900,000,000,000 USD. It has a GDP growth of 2%. The majority of the people works in the service sector with 60%,20% works in the industrial sector,7% works in the primary sector.The Roman Empire's main exports are engineering products, textiles and clothing, production machinery, motor vehicles, transport equipment, chemicals; food, beverages and tobacco; minerals, and nonferrous metals. The Roman Empire's main importsare engineering products, chemicals, transport equipment, energy products, minerals and nonferrous metals, textiles and clothing; food, beverages, and tobacco.Tourism is an important sector for the economy with almost 100 million tourists visiting in a year and with a revenue of more then 80 billion USD.