History of the Mediterranean region Alexandria. Mesopotamia became a fringe border region between the Roman Empire and the Persians. When Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean sea began to be called "Mare Nostrum" (Latin: "Our Sea") by the Romans. Their empire was centered on this sea and all the area was full of commerce and naval development. For the first time in history, an entire sea (the Mediterranean) was free of piracy. For several centuries, the Mediterranean was a "Roman Lake", surrounded on all sides by the empire. The empire began to crumble, however, in the fifth century and Rome collapsed after 476 CE.
Mare Nostrum (video game) around Sicily and main land Italy. The first public release of the modification was on 1 March 2008. Subsequent additional releases quickly came to address software bugs and gameplay issues with the 1.1 release on 8 March 2008 and 1.2 release on 23 March 2008. On October 17, 2008, "Mare Nostrum" was released on Steam. Due to Steam's automatic update feature, version numbers were dropped and all further versions were released exclusively on Steam. On December 11, 2009 "Mare Nostrum" received a large content update through Steam which added Steam Achievements, making it the first Red Orchestra mod to do