Appiah's History of Rome (Greek: ρ ω μ α? κ? ), an ancient Roman history book, written in Greek in the 2nd century AD. The original book has 24 volumes, covering the period from the Roman monarchy, through the Roman Republic to Apia in the 2nd century AD.

Foreign wars involving ancient Rome (including the conquest of Iberian Peninsula, Carthage, Macedonia, Bentu and other places) and internal struggles during the Roman Republic (including Gracchus's reform, civil wars in Marius and Sura, allied wars, Spartak Uprising, the first tripartite alliance, the last tripartite alliance and so on).

It has high historical value for studying the development of ancient Roman countries and the history of Mediterranean coastal areas, and is the main basis for future generations to study Roman history. For example, there is only a detailed account of Spartak in ancient historical works.

2. History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a historical work written by British historian edward gibbon.

The book consists of six volumes and is published in stages. The first volume was published in 1776, the second and third volumes were published in 178 1, and the fourth, fifth and sixth volumes were published in 1788.

This book covers the historical events of the late Roman Empire and the whole Byzantine Empire. Can be divided into two parts. The first part includes 1-47, which describes the history of Rome for more than 500 years before AD 64 1.

The first three chapters are the beginning of the book, which briefly summarizes the relatively stable period of the Roman Empire from 98 AD to 180 AD. The fourth chapter begins with the "decline" of the Roman Empire in A.D. 180, and describes it in chronological order, with more details.

The second part, including the fifth and sixth volumes, describes the history of about 800 years from the death of the Byzantine emperor Chiralius in 64 1 year, to the Turkish occupation of Constantinople in 1453, and finally to the end of the European religious reform in16th century.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a voluminous masterpiece. Gibbon focuses on the first part, while the second part is concise. This work embodies the author's thoughts of opposing autocracy, advocating freedom and equality, and establishing a new social order.

3. "Read European history in one breath"

Reading European History in One Breath is a book co-authored by Wang Weihua, Master of History at Renmin University of China, and Osnabrü ck, Ph.D. in University Economics.

This book divides European history into ten stages, and each stage takes the representative events and important historical facts at that time as the starting point to show readers the features and general situation of each historical stage in Europe.

The introduction of European history in this book adopts a combination of Chinese and English, and helps readers to read through Chinese stage introduction and background narration, thus making the process of English learning smoother.

At the same time, there are new words notes at the back of each introduction, so that readers can easily read this book without a dictionary.

4. The memory of a European.

German Le Monde is an autobiographical literary work by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. This book was written between 1939- 194 1 and was completed in the last years of Zweig's exile. After Zweig died, 1942 was published in Stockholm.

The work begins with the narrative of a young Jewish artist born in Vienna at the end of 19, which spans from the turn of the century to the Second World War. While telling the story, the author interspersed many anecdotes of celebrities and used the first-person expression. The work attempts to describe the culture and art of Europe in that year with an objective attitude and present it to readers from the perspective of "I".

5. European history (up and down)

A History of Europe (Up and Down) is a book published by World Knowledge Publishing House in 2007 by norman davis (UK).

The History of Europe (I) takes time as the main line and advances gradually from fast to slow. Chapter 1 covers the prehistoric period of one million years, and the last chapter discusses the 46-year history from World War II to the year when The History of Europe (Part I) was published.

Norman davis captured all the historical events: the rise and fall of Rome, the massive invasion of alaric and Atila, the Norman conquest, the power struggle of the Vatican, the Renaissance and reform, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

The rise of Europe as the center of world power and the decline caused by two devastating world wars. This is the first European history that pays equal attention to Eastern Europe and Western Europe.