Home âº Research Methods âº Correlation. Correlation means association-more precisely it is a measure of the extent to which two variables are related. If an increase in one variable tends to be associated with an increase in the other then this is known as a positive correlation.
A.D. 468. Photo credit: Fourat/Panoramio. Just like the army, the Roman navy has had its fair share of military disasters. In this one, a joint naval expedition (reputedly one the biggest in ancient times) by the Empire and the independent province of Illiricum against the Vandal Kingdom ended in a huge lopsided defeat.his battle marked the first time that a Roman emperor died at the hands of a foreign enemy. Set in the modern-day city of Razgrad, Bulgaria, the battle pitted the Romansâled by the co-emperors Decius and his son Herenniusâagainst the Goths.
Mare Nostrum belongs to Rome now. These are some of the other great battles through the course of Roman history: The Battle of Pydna (168 BC) â This was the last battle in the Third Macedonian War, where Rome faced off against the Antigonid King Perseus of Macedon, descended from Alexander the Great. Heavily outnumbered, the Roman legions stood against the famed Macedon phalanx and Greek peltasts.