_Roman Empire_, when did its decline begin? 75; its extension, 76; effect of the fifth century on, 79; its traditions kept on in the East, 79, 80; relations of its Eastern and Western divisions, 79-81; its enlargement under Charles, 105; 109, 110; its nature under Charles, 106, 107; its final division in 800, 108, 109; parted from the Roman nation, 110, 111; translation of, 112-114; its extent in the fifth century, 122; its reconquest in the sixth century, 124-126; advance of centralization in, 211; change from republic to empire, 212-214. _Roman kingdom_, in Gaul, 123. _Roman nation_, created by the Edict of Antoninus, 42; its growth, 70, 71; 73. _Roman Senate_, acts as an international court, 57, 58. _Romance languages_, their origin, 90. _Romance nations_, their origin, 90-92; their relation to the Roman Church, 182. Romani, use of the name, 73, 111. _Romania_, Latin Empire of, 145; its style, 146. _Rome_, her historic position, 3, 4; her epithet of “Eternal,” 4; her part in the Eastern Question, 5; her relation to Greece, 15; her early position, 26; her first dealings with Greeks, 31; her sudden entrance in the East, 35; 37; slowness of her second advance, 39-41; her first relations with Greece, 40, 41; importance of her geographical position, 41; her rule, the rule of a city, 42; her historic calling, 43; her relations to Gauls and Teutons, 43, 44; her growth in Italy, 44, 45; effects of her war with Pyrrhos, 45; her rivalry and first war with Carthage, 46, 47; strife of with Carthage for Spain, 48, 49; her establishment beyond the Hadriatic, 49, 50; how affected by the Hannibalian war, 50-53; her position in the East after the first Macedonian war, 54-55; her advance in the second century B.C., 55-59; her time of trial, 60, 61; her relations with Syria and Gaul, 61, 62; her calling in the East, 62, 63; her special rivalry with Persia, 63; her first dealings with Germany, 64; Christianity needful for its mission, 67; change from commonwealth to Empire, 69; its effect on the city and the province, 69, 70; lessening of her local importance, 73, 74; remains specially Pagan, 74; falls away from the Empire, 80; her relation to her allies, 82-85; their slow incorporation, 84, 85; extension of Greek influence by, 93; her influence extended by the Teutonic settlements, ib.; her influence beyond the Empire, 94; taken by the Goths, 95; never occupied by the Lombards, 98; her position compared with that of Constantinople, 100-102; absence of the Emperors from, 101; her relations to Mahometanism, 133; represented by the Popes, 164, 165; 181, 182; the world without Rome, 173-176; the world before and after Rome, 176; effect of her reunion with Italy, 194, 195;