Moreover, the definition of the species and that of the genus are applicable to the primary substance, and that of the genus to the species. View in context Moreover, the goods and merchandise for the Indian trade ought to have brought three times the amount for which they were sold.
The answer most often given is about 500 years, or from 31BCE - 476CE. The ending of the Roman Empire is just an arbitrary date, usually the year of the first sacking of Rome by barbarians. However, Roman emperors still continued to rule for many years after this. In addition, the Eastern Roman Empire continued for almost another thousand years. The Roman Empire.
The Western Empire ceased to exist in 476 CE when the Goths took control, but the Empire continued on in the east, with its capital in Constantinople and was commonly known as the Roman Empire. 1  Rome began as a kingdom around 800 BCE and was then a republic, before becoming an empire. The first Roman Emperor was Octavius, who took the imperial name Augustus. He became emperor in 31 BCE. The Roman Empire split into a Western Roman Empire and an Eastern Roman Empire in 395 CE. The Western Empire ended in 476 CE. The Eastern Empire, or Byzantine Empire, ended in 1453. Depending on how you define the Roman Empire: The united empire lasted 426 years; The Western Empire lasted a further 81 years, for a total of 507 years