People from all over the world are in the tiny town of Lotus in El Dorado County looking for something that's out of this world, but leave it to a stay-at-home mom walking her dog to find a precious meteorite.
The origins of the great civilization known as the Byzantine Empire can be traced to 330 A.D., when the Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a ânew Romeâ on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium.
Never. Rome was an empire during the republic. As soon as Rome began acquiring territory and ruling it under Roman law, it became an empire. The period that people call the â¦Roman Empire was actually the principate, ruled by one man, eventually called by the title Caesar.