comments states such as palmyra temporarily divided the empire in a rd century crisis perhaps that could be clearer how did small city states divide a huge empire in his classical epic poem the aeneid in the aeneid maybe avoid the repetition concrete made possible the paved durable roman roads so they were constructed with concrete needs a ref and i think some explanation roman roads construction and engineering says nothing about the use of cement or concrete in fact the whole ancient rome technology section needs more referencing i have marked up a few sections e g punic wars government economy games and recreation that need more references there is scope for an image in punic wars you could have hannibal and scipio side by side perhaps quaestors were made automatic members of the senate perhaps they were automatically made members adjectives are somewhat astray in some places e g the famous hadrian's wall the famously decisive battle of zama who says it's famous image captions there are many people here over a very long time period so dates might be a help in the captions the maps are noticeably in very different ok random styles which is quite distracting to the reader it would be desirable so not a ga requirement to harmonise these references are formatted very diversely from naked links to full citations this is not a ga issue but needs to be tidied up radically for fa