We were in Tokyo over New Year this year and had a great time visiting temples and the sales with the locals. The temples had a great atmosphere with lots of people, great food stalls and general feeling of everyone being happy and enjoying themselves.
Best Answer: The Roman Empire existed for about 1,000 years from the time of the finding of Rome (c. 753B.C.) until the sack of Rome by the Huns around 450. During its time it ruled to from England to Egypt, from Germany to Tunis. The Holy Roman Empire was started by Charlemagne and was centered in France.
The outer provinces were pretty much doing whatever they wanted. Emperor Diocletian was looking for a way to fix this and other problems. He decided that the only thing to do was to actually break the empire into two pieces. One piece would be the western empire, based in Rome. The other would be the eastern empire, based in Byzantium. There would be two emperors, one in charge of each piece, working together against outside enemies, but each ruling their half separately. This turned out to be a very good plan at least for the Eastern half of the empire. When the Western Roman empire collapsed, the Eastern Empire continued for another thousand years.