This is Angela O'Dell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical worldview perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 29 of real cool history for kids.

If you have studied ancient history at all, you probably know that the Roman Empire was a mighty, mighty empire.

This is the empire that was in power when Jesus was born.

The Jews had been conquered by the Romans a couple of centuries before Christ's birth.

The Roman Empire included large portions of the continents of Europe and Asia and Africa

and ruled millions of people.

In fact, the empire was so big that it was eventually divided between a Western half and

an Eastern half.

The Eastern Roman Empire was ruled from a city which is now in modern day

Turkey. The city is called Constantinople. The city was made the capital of that

empire by an emperor named Constantine in the year 331 AD.

Whenever you hear the letters AD after a date, that means that it is after Christ. It stands for the Latin words for

after Christ. The Western half of the Roman Empire included the ancient city of Rome.

Though it was no longer officially the capital, it was still a very important city.

The Western half continued to be called the Roman Empire.

Though the Roman Empire.

Though the Roman Empire was still large,

it had an abundance of problems.

One problem was its size.

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