We were in Tokyo over New Year this year and had a great time visiting temples and the sales with the locals. The temples had a great atmosphere with lots of people, great food stalls and general feeling of everyone being happy and enjoying themselves.
Best Answer: The Roman Empire existed for about 1,000 years from the time of the finding of Rome (c. 753B.C.) until the sack of Rome by the Huns around 450. During its time it ruled to from England to Egypt, from Germany to Tunis. The Holy Roman Empire was started by Charlemagne and was centered in France.
Best Answer: The Roman empire was from very early linguistically divided: the western half spoke latin, the eastern half spoke greek. greek was the lingua franca of that part of the world long before the Romans conquered it, and remained the common language after the fall of the western half of the empire.