Twenty peoples,
one collapsing world.

The founding people of Rome. From a small Iron-Age tribe on the Tiber, the Latins built the legal and linguistic spine of the western empire.

The intellectual and administrative engine of the eastern half. Greek philosophy, medicine and rhetoric shaped every elite Roman education.

Celtic peoples whose druidic religion was suppressed but whose smiths, cavalry and rhetors were absorbed into the Roman elite.

The grain breadbasket. One third of Rome's wheat dole came from Egypt; lose it and the capital starved.

Semitic-speaking traders and theologians who connected Rome to Persia, India and the Silk Road.

A monotheistic people whose refusal to assimilate religiously made them both protected and persecuted within the empire.

Indigenous peoples of the Maghreb whose horsemen and orators rose to the very top of Roman society.

A patchwork of Iberian, Celtiberian and Lusitanian peoples that produced more emperors than any province bar Italy.

Legendary warriors whose horsemen filled the auxilia and whose champions filled the arena.

Celtic tribes who developed a distinctive Romano-British culture, then were largely overrun by Saxons after Rome withdrew.

A mosaic of indigenous peoples — including Celtic Galatians — absorbed into the Greek-speaking East.

Tough Balkan tribes whose disciplined recruits dominated the army and the throne in the 3rd–4th centuries.