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Hadrian returns to Britain.(Report from Europe)
In AD 117, when Hadrian came to rule the Roman Empire, it encompassed an area stretching from northern Africa to Scotland and included a large area of the Middle East. Bigger than the present European Union, these lands shared a language, currency, and administration. Emperor Hadrian showed himself to be a multifaceted leader. He recognized that the Roman government was overstretched, and within five years he visited Britain, where he ordered the wall that still bears his name built to contain and guard the empire in the north. He also delineated and strengthened the separation from Germany, withdrew Roman forces from Mesopotamia, and abandoned Syria.
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In some respects he was a man of culture, and architecture was one of his passions. Throughout the empire he commissioned many buildings, yet he showed no tolerance for cultural dissent. When he tried to reconstruct Jerusalem as a Roman city, a revolt broke out, and he ruthlessly quelled the Jewish population. Perhaps the most famous of his buildings are the Pantheon in Rome and his nearby ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hadrian returns to Britain.(Report from Europe)